Re: [gentoo-dev] Having fun with compression

[Robin H. Johnson]

On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 06:30:23PM +0200, Patrick Lauer wrote:
> We have ~15k .tar.gz in distfiles. ~6500 .tar.bz2, ~2000 others.
> A short run over 477 distfiles spanning 833M gave me 586M of .tar.bz2 -
> roughly 30% more efficient!
> A comparison run with 7zip gave me 590M files, so bzip2 seems to be
> quite good.
Try rzip, esp. on the larger files, and see a serious improvement, with
the cost of one major penalty [*].

* rzip cannot handle streams, it seeks across the file multiple times
  for what it does.

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