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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o, dist-kernel@g.o, kernel@g.o, Sam James <sam@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 6/8] kernel-build.eclass: compress xz/zstd in parallel
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2022 08:39:48
Message-Id: utu49tozb@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 6/8] kernel-build.eclass: compress xz/zstd in parallel by "Michał Górny"
1 >>>>> On Wed, 12 Oct 2022, Michał Górny wrote:
2
3 > (I mean, most of these files won't even use parallel compression
4 > because they're too small).
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6 xz(1) says about the block size: "The default size is three times the
7 LZMA2 dictionary size or 1 MiB, whichever is more." The default (-6)
8 dictionary size is 8 MiB.
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10 So IIUC only files larger than 24 MiB would be compressed in parallel?
11
12 Ulrich

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