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From: Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o>
To: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] Change BINPKG_COMPRESS default from bzip2 to xz
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2020 20:09:40
Message-Id: CAEdQ38Gy3VmQpNa821OxOh9cYGVOnPDr330aHz3DtyKFH3C5oA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] Change BINPKG_COMPRESS default from bzip2 to xz by "Michał Górny"
1 On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 12:29 PM Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
2 >
3 > On Sun, 2020-04-26 at 09:55 -0700, Matt Turner wrote:
4 > > Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/715108
5 > > Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o>
6 > > ---
7 > > Strawman patch. Bikeshed away.
8 > >
9 >
10 > xz is generally slow and doesn't do parallel good. If we want to change
11 > this, we should go for something cool like zstd that scales better.
12
13 That works for me.

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