Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] Change BINPKG_COMPRESS default from bzip2 to xz

[Fabian Groffen]

On 26-04-2020 21:29:42 +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
> On Sun, 2020-04-26 at 09:55 -0700, Matt Turner wrote:
> > Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/715108
> > Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o>
> > ---
> > Strawman patch. Bikeshed away.
> >
>
> xz is generally slow and doesn't do parallel good.  If we want to change
> this, we should go for something cool like zstd that scales better.

I'd go for zstd too.  It seems to be the best of both worlds, good
compression at a good speed.

Thanks,
Fabian


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Fabian Groffen
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