Eric Blake <[email protected]> writes: > On 02/07/2017 09:59 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: >> I have converted all .gz and .bz2 files to .xz on download.qemu.org >> and this patch would change the links in the website. This would save >> about 5 GB of bandwidth every day (about 20% savings). >> >> xz should be available for all platforms. Besides providing better >> compression ratios, decompression of .xz files is about twice as fast >> compared to bzip2. Compression instead is about 5.5 times slower. > > I agree that bzip2 is pointless these days; .gz is a bit more important > when targetting older platforms but I think that does not describe > qemu's target audience. Do we want to even enter the xz vs. lzma > controversy, or are we okay with being xz-only?
Pointer to / summary of the controversy, so that folks can decide whether they care?
