On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 10:30 -0700, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 06:30:23PM +0200, Patrick Lauer wrote: > > We have ~15k .tar.gz in distfiles. ~6500 .tar.bz2, ~2000 others. > > A short run over 477 distfiles spanning 833M gave me 586M of .tar.bz2 - > > roughly 30% more efficient! > > A comparison run with 7zip gave me 590M files, so bzip2 seems to be > > quite good. > Try rzip, esp. on the larger files, and see a serious improvement, with > the cost of one major penalty [*]. > > * rzip cannot handle streams, it seeks across the file multiple times > for what it does. > 642M on my data set - not bad, but bzip2 seems to be better on the files I have tested.
Patrick -- Stand still, and let the rest of the universe move
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