Cody A.W. Somerville wrote: > I'd like to propose the attached patch which changes "--best" to > "--fast" in the lh_binary_tar helper. Using "--best" (the highest level > of compression) can take 20% longer to complete but only provides 4-5% > better compression. This performance impact can quickly be inflated when > performing on platforms such as ARM. To put this in perspective, I did a > few unscientific tests.
as mentioned before, your point is totally valid, however, in the default case i'd like to stick with best as there's imho not much point in building release builds with --fast. therefore, in git, i've added a --gzip-options switch to change the gzip options. -- Address: Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: daniel.baum...@panthera-systems.net Internet: http://people.panthera-systems.net/~daniel-baumann/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-live-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
