On 2017-10-29 Bernhard Voelker <m...@bernhard-voelker.de> wrote: > On 10/28/2017 08:06 PM, Andreas Metzler wrote: [...] > > OTOH -7e is almost two times *slower* than the default. 5.74 seconds vs > > 3.77 on i5-6500.
> This is the time for creating the compressed tarball, right? This is done > only once on a maintainer's system. I didn't see any noticeable difference > during extraction (on my i5-4570) though. > Coreutils uses -8e for the same reason [1], so I think it's worth here as > well. I'll adjust to -8e then, WDYT? Hello, I think there was a basic misunderstanding on my side. You were optimizing *decompression* (user) while I was thinking about compression (maintainer). Sorry for the noise. cu Andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure'
