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Re: Why I am happy to dump gzip for xz
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Mike Frysinger |
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Re: Why I am happy to dump gzip for xz |
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Tue, 6 Mar 2012 14:11:27 -0500 |
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On Tuesday 06 March 2012 12:03:43 Jim Meyering wrote:
> Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Tuesday 06 March 2012 04:57:27 Jim Meyering wrote:
> >> Why I am happy to dump gzip for xz:
> >> - xz decompresses more quickly
> >
> > is that true ? i thought last i looked, they were close, but gzip was
> > consistently slightly faster. maybe if the bottleneck is more I/O than
> > CPU/memory, xz would win ?
>
> Even back when the program was named lzma, it was always
> much more efficient at decompressing than *bzip2*:
sure, i agree completely that xz over bzip2 is a no brainer in pretty much
every way possible :)
-mike
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