Re: Use bz2 not gz for orig.tar ?
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 10:33:46AM +0200, Miriam Ruiz wrote:
> According to the benchmarks in http://www.linuks.mine.nu/sizematters/ , the
> size of the archive would be nearly 30% smaller, but the decompression would
> be 5 times slower, meaning that it would take 500% the time it takes now to
> uncompress the archives. Compression time would be 10 times more (1000% the
> time it takes now). I wonder if that would be suitable for smaller systems.
Yeah, but decompression is still faster than bzip2 though.
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