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On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 10:30 -0700, Robin H. Johnson wrote: |
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> On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 06:30:23PM +0200, Patrick Lauer wrote: |
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> > We have ~15k .tar.gz in distfiles. ~6500 .tar.bz2, ~2000 others. |
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> > A short run over 477 distfiles spanning 833M gave me 586M of .tar.bz2 - |
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> > roughly 30% more efficient! |
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> > A comparison run with 7zip gave me 590M files, so bzip2 seems to be |
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> > quite good. |
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> Try rzip, esp. on the larger files, and see a serious improvement, with |
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> the cost of one major penalty [*]. |
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> |
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> * rzip cannot handle streams, it seeks across the file multiple times |
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> for what it does. |
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642M on my data set - not bad, but bzip2 seems to be better on the files |
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I have tested. |
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Patrick |
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Stand still, and let the rest of the universe move |
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