Messages in this thread | | | From | Alistair John Strachan <> | Subject | Re: Linux Kernel Source Compression | Date | Sun, 21 May 2006 22:22:14 +0100 |
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On Sunday 21 May 2006 22:00, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 08:03:32PM +0100, Alistair John Strachan wrote: > > Somebody needs to make lzma userspace tools (like p7zip) faster, not > > crash, and behave like a regular UNIX program. Then we need a patch > > to GNU tar to emerge, and for it to persist for at least 4 > > years. Then maybe people will adopt this format.. > > why? > > the gains aren't that great
If it was less than 5%, I'd agree with you. The fact is, it's 17% better on a regular kernel tarball (not exactly a contrived test), so there would be reason to use it. It's also faster to decompress.
http://tukaani.org/lzma/
This utility appears to address most of my original concerns (i.e., it works with stream LZMA and has a bzip2/gzip-esque frontend). I could see LZMA replacing bzip2, but not gzip, due to the compression performance issues.
-- Cheers, Alistair.
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