On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 02:44:47 -0800,
S Mathias wrote:
>
> I presume kernel.org knows this. Why doesn't people use e.g.: XZ?
People are switching over to this. Expect this to be the default for live
images for F15. I measuered an 8.6% reduction in the games spin today.
This is the difference
wow...
http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=ihLLHyiT
$ time 7z a -mx=9 linux-2.6.37.tar.7z linux-2.6.37.tar; echo; time xz -9 -z
linux-2.6.37.tar; echo; ls -lS
7-Zip 9.13 beta Copyright (c) 1999-2010 Igor Pavlov 2010-04-15
p7zip Version 9.13 (locale=en_US.utf8,Utf16=on,HugeFiles=on,2 CPUs)
Scanning
On 01/22/2011 06:44 AM, S Mathias wrote:
> I presume kernel.org knows this. Why doesn't people use e.g.: XZ?
>
> This is the same as in PDF's. DJVU files could be amazing too. They could
> compress [convert] a 400 MByte PDF to a 20 MByte DJVU. Amazing.
>
> Why don't these technologies spread??
>
http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=MwDnhknf
$ ls -Sl
total 461252
-rw-rw-r--. 1 g g 111709730 Jan 22 11:06 linux-2.6.37.zip
-rw-rw-r--. 1 g g 93174605 Jan 22 11:03 linux-2.6.37.tar.gz
-rw-rw-r--. 1 g g 73552510 Jan 22 11:10 linux-2.6.37.tar.bz2
-rw-rw-r--. 1 g g 66333786 Jan 22 11:16 linux-2.6.37.7z
