On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 06:30:23PM +0200, Patrick Lauer wrote: > We have ~15k .tar.gz in distfiles. ~6500 .tar.bz2, ~2000 others. > A short run over 477 distfiles spanning 833M gave me 586M of .tar.bz2 - > roughly 30% more efficient! > A comparison run with 7zip gave me 590M files, so bzip2 seems to be > quite good. Try rzip, esp. on the larger files, and see a serious improvement, with the cost of one major penalty [*].
* rzip cannot handle streams, it seeks across the file multiple times for what it does. -- Robin Hugh Johnson E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG FP : 11AC BA4F 4778 E3F6 E4ED F38E B27B 944E 3488 4E85
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