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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] Change BINPKG_COMPRESS default from bzip2 to xz
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2020 19:29:49
Message-Id: 3769de3bc03f24e792bc9cb946524749e090ca05.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] Change BINPKG_COMPRESS default from bzip2 to xz by Matt Turner
1 On Sun, 2020-04-26 at 09:55 -0700, Matt Turner wrote:
2 > Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/715108
3 > Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o>
4 > ---
5 > Strawman patch. Bikeshed away.
6 >
7
8 xz is generally slow and doesn't do parallel good. If we want to change
9 this, we should go for something cool like zstd that scales better.
10
11 --
12 Best regards,
13 Michał Górny

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