Re: compressor
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 04:24:19PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 16:15 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> > xz: tar Jcf
>
> I'm using a distro that packages with xz.
>
> I'm sure that there never was a big difference between
> "gz: tar zcf" and "bzip2: tar jcf" for the length of the files, but the
> time for packing and unpacking does differ very much.
Indeed, bz2 is very slow. But it can be much better at compressing:
linux-3.6-rc2.tar.bz2 16-Aug-2012 22:01 78M
linux-3.6-rc2.tar.gz 16-Aug-2012 22:01 99M
linux-3.6-rc2.tar.xz 16-Aug-2012 22:01 65M
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