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Re: .tar.xz for snapshots?


On Aug 23 14:09, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 12:00:58PM -0600, Keith Christian wrote:
> >Perhaps we should test to see whether we want to trade compression for time.
> 
> The only time that the end-user has to worry about is download time +
> uncompress time.  I think that the win with xz compression outweighs any
> increase in uncompress time.

Doesn't xz also have a faster uncompression than bzip2?


Corinna

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