On Dec 3, 12:58 pm, "Dr. David Kirkby" <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: > I've not checked out the claims of the speedup (in fact, I've not even > downloaded its source code yet), but assuming it does work reaonsably well, > what > are your thoughts on implementing this?
Is the compression ratio the same? I've nothing against using it, but I don't think it makes much sense. The major time consuming part in building a binary distribution is the compilation and bzip2 isn't very slow. I would much more like to see lzma as a default ( tar --lzma - cf ...tar.lzma dir/ would be the command ) which is really slower, but compresses >30% better and is well supported as far as i can say. How about distributing the linux binaries of the next release lzma only? H -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
