Re: [arch-general] Suggestion: switch to zstd -19 for compressing packages over xz

2019-03-15 Thread Adam Fontenot via arch-general
On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 11:10 PM Darren Wu via arch-general wrote: > > I have 4Mbps (512KBytes/s) 'broad'band and i7-6500U CPU. I wanna cry. > Even in a worst-case scenario like this one, the Squash compression test I linked to shows an increase from 26 secs (xz -6) to 29 secs (zstd -19), so you

Re: [arch-general] Suggestion: switch to zstd -19 for compressing packages over xz

2019-03-15 Thread Darren Wu via arch-general
I have 4Mbps (512KBytes/s) 'broad'band and i7-6500U CPU. I wanna cry. On Sat, Mar 16, 2019, 13:38 Adam Fontenot via arch-general < arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote: > Hi, > > It's now been about half a year since support for zstd landed in our > packaging tools. I've been quietly using it for al

[arch-general] Suggestion: switch to zstd -19 for compressing packages over xz

2019-03-15 Thread Adam Fontenot via arch-general
Hi, It's now been about half a year since support for zstd landed in our packaging tools. I've been quietly using it for all my locally built packages since then with no issues. I think it would be worthwhile to have a discussion about whether to use zstd for officially built packages. Here is a b