Tom Hughes wrote:
> I'd say remove it - compressing the debug sections is horrible because
> it forces anything that wants to access the debug data to load it all in
> and decompress it rather than just reading what it needs.
In addition, it actually increases download sizes because RPMs and live
images are xz-compressed, and xz compresses uncompressed data better than
zlib-compressed data. The zlib compression is much poorer than xz
compression, it just keeps xz from compressing things well.
Kevin Kofler
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