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Ühel kenal päeval, T, 10.01.2017 kell 14:39, kirjutas Ulrich Mueller: |
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> > > > > > On Tue, 10 Jan 2017, Mart Raudsepp wrote: |
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> > Yes, the default should be changed for everyone. |
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> > To PORTAGE_COMPRESS="xz". |
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> Back in 2013, vapier had made extensive studies of compression tools |
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> for man pages and documentation, and the conclusion was that bzip2 |
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> gives the best overall compression ratio for these files. |
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> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169260 |
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Nvm then, assuming it also gives the fastest streaming decompression |
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ratio, which I suspect is close enough with unxz. |
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My real point back of my mind was that these days it can be faster to |
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read a heavily compressed file from disk and decompress than to only |
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read a larger file from disk. And then we got SSDs, so that might be |
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different again. |
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