From: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
To: jan.kratochvil@redhat.com
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: xz for the new release tip
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 06:19:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200910010619.n916JCCc020880@brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090930202857.GA32600@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net> (message from Jan Kratochvil on Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:28:57 +0200)
> Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:28:57 +0200
> From: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
>
> Hi,
>
> while currently the sources are release both as .tar.gz and as .tar.bz2 would
> not it be worth to start using .xz as a replacement for the .bz2 variant?
>
> 13406892 bytes: gdb-6.8.91.20090930.tar.xz (xz -9)
> xz -dc: real 0m1.226s user 0m1.190s sys 0m0.037s
>
> 18453837 bytes: gdb-6.8.91.20090930.tar.bz2
> bzip2 -dc: real 0m3.775s user 0m3.755s sys 0m0.019s
Never heard of it, so my guess it isn't used widely enough yet to make
sense.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-01 6:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-30 20:30 Jan Kratochvil
2009-09-30 20:39 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2009-10-01 6:19 ` Mark Kettenis [this message]
2009-10-01 6:27 ` Ralf Corsepius
2009-10-01 6:32 ` Ralf Corsepius
2009-10-01 6:38 ` Jan Kratochvil
2009-10-01 6:48 ` Ralf Corsepius
2009-10-01 6:55 ` Jan Kratochvil
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