Ühel kenal päeval, T, 10.01.2017 kell 14:39, kirjutas Ulrich Mueller: > > > > > > On Tue, 10 Jan 2017, Mart Raudsepp wrote: > > Yes, the default should be changed for everyone. > > To PORTAGE_COMPRESS="xz". > > Back in 2013, vapier had made extensive studies of compression tools > for man pages and documentation, and the conclusion was that bzip2 > gives the best overall compression ratio for these files. > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169260
Nvm then, assuming it also gives the fastest streaming decompression ratio, which I suspect is close enough with unxz. My real point back of my mind was that these days it can be faster to read a heavily compressed file from disk and decompress than to only read a larger file from disk. And then we got SSDs, so that might be different again.
