On Monday, November 25, 2024 10:37:39 AM MST Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > > the extension (.tar.xz, .tar.gz or plain .tar, etc). As of May 2024, ZST > > seems to provide the best size/time ratio. It certainly is the fastest on a > > Dell> > > Precision 3800M, 16GB RAM, on an SSD drive (a computer from early 2015): > > >Format Tarball size Time > > > > > >.xz ~100MB 179,60s user 7,09s system 75% cpu 4:07,49 total > > >.gz ~150MB 38,51s user 6,13s system 83% cpu 53,423 total > > >.zst ~139MB 22,68s user 6,28s system 74% cpu 38,868 total > > IIRC these times are for tarball creation (incl. downloading and > apt). Unpacking is AFAICT a lot faster in many cases. Locally it > feels like <1s.
Thanks. I see I misunderstood what was being stated on the website. -- Soren Stoutner so...@debian.org
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