Kris and Ruslan were recently discussing the performance of bsdtar relative to gtar, which prompted me to do some measurements of my own. I used /usr/ports as my test, because it stresses file and directory creation over extracting large files.
Here are some initial results, based on ten runs of each test on a quiescent system, comparing results with PHK's "ministat": * Creating uncompressed archives: bsdtar and gtar showed no difference in total time. * Extracting gzip-compressed archives: bsdtar and gtar showed no difference in total time. * Extracting uncompressed archives: gtar is about 13% faster than bsdtar in my test. Interestingly (to me), this was the same with or without -m. (I've long suspected dir timestamp restores as a contributor; this shows otherwise.) Tim Kientzle _______________________________________________ cvs-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
