Hi, I've checked the difference between gzip and xz (in its default -6 mode, not in -9, which the man page discourages). The tests were done on all the files in the orig.tar.gz archive.
original: 417M gzip: 46s to compress down to 152M, 3.2s to decompress xz: 2m55s to compress down to 140M, 11.1s to decompress xz -9: 3m53s to compress down to 140M, 11.1s to decompress So we're looking at a 3x slowdown in compress time (and decompress), for a small 3% improvement in compression ration (from 36% to 33%). The original bug was filled in 2004; I wonder if today ~12MB (or maybe 20MB when compress the extra files too) is worth doing, or if it's fine to remain with gzip. Thoughts? regards, iustin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
