On Tue, 23 Sep 2014 12:30:21 +0100 Ralph Eastwood <tcmreastw...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey Ralph, > Some time ago, there was some discussion about sbase's tar with > compression. I was wondering if this compression tool would > necessarily have to be a standard gzip/bzip2/xz implementation. > > As Gzip,Bzip2 and XZ rely on rather complicated code bases, I propose > that a different algorithm (probably based off ROLZ), be used > instead, with a focus on a suckless implementation as opposed to > speed/compression ratio. Having said that, most ROLZ implementations > do tend to have greater speed and higher compression ratio than Gzip. maybe you have followed the discussion about the imagefile-format. We currently compress to bz2 by default, but are always happy to see how other algorithms fare with it. A ROLZ-implementation could be pretty great! > I know I could easily create a suckless implementation, but would it > be of interest to be included in sbase or is it beyond the scope of > the collection of utilities? If it's so simple, why don't you set it up and we test it out? I'd love to have a simple, suckless compression-algorithm and see no problem in adding one to the suckless-universe. Cheers FRIGN -- FRIGN <d...@frign.de>
