If you want to open that debate (again?), one should probably switch to lzip. It uses the same LZMA compression like xz, but has a way more sane file format. Also note that the (pretended) multi-threading-capability of xz is mostly based on its improper file format[1]: > The xz-utils manual says that LZMA2 is an updated version of LZMA to > fix some practical issues of LZMA. This wording suggests that LZMA2 > is some sort of improved LZMA algorithm. (After all, the 'A' in LZMA > stands for 'algorithm'). But LZMA2 is a container format that divides > LZMA data into chunks in an unsafe way. Regards [1] https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html
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