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From: Tom Wijsman <TomWij@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: using .xz for doc/man/info compression
Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 12:17:35
Message-Id: 20140512141711.5e1a587a@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: using .xz for doc/man/info compression by Alexander Tsoy
1 On Mon, 12 May 2014 14:47:36 +0400
2 Alexander Tsoy <alexander@××××.me> wrote:
3
4 > Here is my test results. xz options: "--lzma2=preset=6e,dict=4MiB".
5 > Larger dictionary size does not improve compression ratio, I get
6 > even worse results with just "-6e" or "-9e". man-bz2 is a full copy of
7 > my /usr/share/man, man-xz is a recompressed one.
8
9 Picking a random post to reply; if you don't already, please consider
10 to do these tests in tmpfs to cancel out any fs / storage differences.
11
12 --
13 With kind regards,
14
15 Tom Wijsman (TomWij)
16 Gentoo Developer
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Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: using .xz for doc/man/info compression Alexander Tsoy <alexander@××××.me>