>> Can somebody please help me understand the change log for >> 3.1.x: "Support for these algorithms requires that tor is >> built with the libzstd and/or >> liblzma libraries available." Is it AND or OR or something whatever >> different ? > > > Hi! Let me try to clear it up: > > If Tor is built with liblzma available, it will use liblzma when > appropriate. The lzma format is expensive to calculate, but it > provides very good compression, so we only use it for cases when we > can compress something once and server it many many times -- like > consensus documents, or consensus diffs. > > If Tor is built with libzstd available, it will use libzstd when > appropriate. The zstd format is cheap to calculate, but appears to > provide better compression than zlib on our data. > > If Tor is built with both libraries available, it will use either one > when appropriate. > > Of course, we can only use these compression formats when both sides > support them.
Thanks. Clear to me. So 'Liblzma N/A' should not be an issue. -- Cheers Felix _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
