From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17281 invoked by alias); 1 Oct 2009 06:19:34 -0000 Received: (qmail 17272 invoked by uid 22791); 1 Oct 2009 06:19:34 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SARE_SUB_OBFU_Z X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from sibelius.xs4all.nl (HELO sibelius.xs4all.nl) (83.163.83.176) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 01 Oct 2009 06:19:28 +0000 Received: from brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl (kettenis@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n916JDgR007599; Thu, 1 Oct 2009 08:19:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from kettenis@localhost) by brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n916JCCc020880; Thu, 1 Oct 2009 08:19:12 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 06:19:00 -0000 Message-Id: <200910010619.n916JCCc020880@brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl> From: Mark Kettenis To: jan.kratochvil@redhat.com CC: gdb@sourceware.org In-reply-to: <20090930202857.GA32600@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net> (message from Jan Kratochvil on Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:28:57 +0200) Subject: Re: xz for the new release tip References: <20090930202857.GA32600@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net> Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2009-10/txt/msg00002.txt.bz2 > Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:28:57 +0200 > From: Jan Kratochvil > > 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.