From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ulrich Mueller Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Could distributed tarballs be compressed with xz instead of bzip2? Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:46:36 +0100 Message-ID: <20261.9100.530243.54527@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1327834017 4345 80.91.229.3 (29 Jan 2012 10:46:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 10:46:57 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 29 11:46:56 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RrSHg-0001fS-Ke for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:46:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57158 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RrSHd-0005Gh-46 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 05:46:53 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:56491) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RrSHa-0005Gc-U5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 05:46:51 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RrSHa-0006oX-2x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 05:46:50 -0500 Original-Received: from a1iwww1.kph.uni-mainz.de ([134.93.134.1]:49885) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RrSHZ-0006oC-RW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 05:46:50 -0500 Original-Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de [134.93.134.92]) by a1iwww1.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id q0TAkavZ023790 for ; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:46:36 +0100 Original-Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.5/8.14.2) with ESMTP id q0TAkapn020418; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:46:36 +0100 Original-Received: (from ulm@localhost) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id q0TAkaSQ020417; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:46:36 +0100 X-Mailer: VM 8.2.0b under 23.4.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 134.93.134.1 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:148001 Archived-At: It would be considerably smaller (sizes are for "bzip2 -9" and "xz -6" which is the default): 51056640 emacs-24.0.92.tar.gz 41410560 emacs-24.0.92.tar.bz2 34443264 emacs-24.0.92.tar.xz Also xz can be uncompressed much faster: $ time bunzip2 emacs-24.0.92.tar.bz2 real 0m11.840s user 0m10.393s sys 0m0.423s $ time unxz emacs-24.0.92.tar.xz real 0m4.251s user 0m3.833s sys 0m0.412s