Re: Possible abuse of dpkg-deb -z9 for xz compressed binary packages
Hi Henrique,
On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 03:18:02PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> OTOH, using -z9 on datasets smaller than the -z8 dictionary size *is* a
> waste of memory (I don't know about cpu time, and xz(1) doesn't say anything
> on that matter). The same goes for -z8 and datasets smaller than -z7
> dictionary size, and so on.
> It is rather annoying that xz is not smart enough to detect this and
> downgrade the -z level when it is given a seekable file (which it can stat()
> and know the full size of beforehand).
This wouldn't seem too hard to implement in xz - have you asked upstream
about it?
Riku
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