Could we use something better than zip for the dmd package?
Vladimir Panteleev
vladimir at thecybershadow.net
Fri Dec 23 14:59:01 PST 2011
On Friday, 23 December 2011 at 17:24:10 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Friday, 23 December 2011 at 17:13:25 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
> wrote:
>> Interestingly, in my experience, 7z seems to even beat
>> .tar.bz2 by a non-trivial amount.
>
> Slackware Linux recently changed from the old .tar.gz for it's
> distribution to .tar.xz - .xz uses the same algorithm as 7zip.
>
> I never cared much for bz2 myself. It's slightly better than
> gzip,
> but it comes at the cost of being slow as crap.
The great thing about bzip2 is that it parallelizes much better
than LZMA.
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/02/file-compression-in-the-multi-core-era.html
LZMA2 (available starting with 7-Zip 9.20) was created with
parallelization in mind.
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