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Hi all, |
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I had this random idea that many of our distfiles are .tar.gz while more |
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efficient compression methods exist. So I did some testing for fun: |
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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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I don't think repackaging every .tar.gz as .tar.bz2 is a reasonable |
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option (breaks MD5 digests, we lose the fallback download from the |
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homepage), but maybe this motivates people to save bandwidth and migrate |
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their packaging to bzip2. |
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Happy hacking, |
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Patrick |
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Stand still, and let the rest of the universe move |
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