Leo,

Leo Famulari wrote on 15/12/17 at 20:17:
> On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 10:37:21PM +0100, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote:
>> * gnu/packages/compression.scm (lunzip): New public variable.
> 
> If the closure of this package is smaller than that of lzip, perhaps we
> could use it instead as the default LZ decompressor when building
> packages.

Indeed! I was thinking the same thing :-)

A performance comparison of all these implementations was on my to-do
list for the weekend, but might be delayed by mandatory holiday cheer.

Kind regards,

T G-R