From: Chong Yidong <cyd@gnu.org>
To: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Could distributed tarballs be compressed with xz instead of bzip2?
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:51:09 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871uqfuuzm.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261.9100.530243.54527@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> (Ulrich Mueller's message of "Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:46:36 +0100")
Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> writes:
> 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:
I'll do that for Emacs 24.4. Thanks for the suggestion.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-01 2:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-29 10:46 Could distributed tarballs be compressed with xz instead of bzip2? Ulrich Mueller
2012-02-01 2:51 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2012-02-01 2:51 ` Chong Yidong
2012-08-20 7:38 ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-02-01 9:31 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2012-02-01 13:44 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2012-02-01 17:13 ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-02-01 14:11 ` Stefan Monnier
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