From: Patrick Lauer <patrick@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Having fun with compression
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 21:03:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1146423806.15273.2.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060430173023.GC15141@curie-int.vc.shawcable.net>
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On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 10:30 -0700, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 06:30:23PM +0200, Patrick Lauer wrote:
> > We have ~15k .tar.gz in distfiles. ~6500 .tar.bz2, ~2000 others.
> > A short run over 477 distfiles spanning 833M gave me 586M of .tar.bz2 -
> > roughly 30% more efficient!
> > A comparison run with 7zip gave me 590M files, so bzip2 seems to be
> > quite good.
> Try rzip, esp. on the larger files, and see a serious improvement, with
> the cost of one major penalty [*].
>
> * rzip cannot handle streams, it seeks across the file multiple times
> for what it does.
>
642M on my data set - not bad, but bzip2 seems to be better on the files
I have tested.
Patrick
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-30 16:30 [gentoo-dev] Having fun with compression Patrick Lauer
2006-04-30 17:30 ` Robin H. Johnson
2006-04-30 19:03 ` Patrick Lauer [this message]
2006-05-02 15:33 ` Francesco Riosa
2006-05-01 3:36 ` Jon Hood
2006-05-01 8:56 ` Patrick Lauer
2006-05-01 12:11 ` Chris Bainbridge
2006-05-02 15:50 ` Ryan Phillips
2006-05-02 16:27 ` Patrick Lauer
2006-05-02 17:36 ` Chris Gianelloni
2006-05-02 17:59 ` Jan Kundrát
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