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Re: The archive now supports xz compression



On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 06:38:28AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> ]] Adam Borowski 
> 
> |   Does someone have an estimate how many core-hours would an archive rebuild
> |   on such a machine take?  Folks on IRC quoted numbers like "340", "240 on a
> |   very fast box", "more like 1500" -- too divergent for my liking.  The
> |   first number, 340, would mean switching to xz exclusively would increase
> |   average build time by ~5%.
> 
> About 14 on a 2x6-core Intel Xeon X5650 (2.67GHz) (with HT), lots of
> memory, fast disks.

Ie, 250-300ish core-hours, sounds good.

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