Re: [PATCH] maint: use an optimal-for-findutils xz compression setting

2017-10-29 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2017-10-29 Bernhard Voelker wrote: > On 10/28/2017 08:06 PM, Andreas Metzler wrote: [...] > > OTOH -7e is almost two times *slower* than the default. 5.74 seconds vs > > 3.77 on i5-6500. > This is the time for creating the compressed tarball, right? This is done > only once on a maintainer's

Re: [PATCH] maint: use an optimal-for-findutils xz compression setting

2017-10-29 Thread Jim Meyering
On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 2:24 PM, Bernhard Voelker wrote: > On 10/28/2017 08:06 PM, Andreas Metzler wrote: >> On 2017-10-28 Bernhard Voelker wrote: >>> * cfg.mk: Set XZ_OPT = -7e (determined empirically). >>> The compressed tarball size is identical to the default settings (-9e), >>> but using -9e

Re: [PATCH] maint: use an optimal-for-findutils xz compression setting

2017-10-29 Thread Bernhard Voelker
On 10/28/2017 08:06 PM, Andreas Metzler wrote: > On 2017-10-28 Bernhard Voelker wrote: >> * cfg.mk: Set XZ_OPT = -7e (determined empirically). >> The compressed tarball size is identical to the default settings (-9e), >> but using -9e would force every decompression process to use 48 MiB >> more m

Re: [PATCH] maint: use an optimal-for-findutils xz compression setting

2017-10-28 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2017-10-28 Bernhard Voelker wrote: > * cfg.mk: Set XZ_OPT = -7e (determined empirically). > The compressed tarball size is identical to the default settings (-9e), > but using -9e would force every decompression process to use 48 MiB > more memory. [...] Hello, I do not think this is a good t

[PATCH] maint: use an optimal-for-findutils xz compression setting

2017-10-28 Thread Bernhard Voelker
* cfg.mk: Set XZ_OPT = -7e (determined empirically). The compressed tarball size is identical to the default settings (-9e), but using -9e would force every decompression process to use 48 MiB more memory. --- cfg.mk | 27 +++ 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+) diff --git a/