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From: Tobias Klausmann <klausman@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ship app-arch/pbzip2 instead of app-arch/bzip2
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 10:58:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120927085827.GA55907@kaini.schwarzvogel.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50637878.1080500@gentoo.org>

Hi! 

On Wed, 26 Sep 2012, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote:
> A different question is whether in the cases where parallel bzip2 makes
> sense, is it really the best solution? xz is outperforming bzip2's
> compression ratio for large files (for an informal comparison, see bug
> 434350). And xz is faster at decompression, which offsets the parallel
> advantage to some degree.

As for the performance side of things: 
http://blog.i-no.de/archives/2008/05/08/index.html#e2008-05-08T16_35_13.txt

Yes, that's four years old and needs to be redone with modern
implementations (and machines). Will do so this weekend (I hope).

Regards,
Tobias

-- 
printk (KERN_ALERT "You are screwed! " ...);
        linux-2.6.6/arch/i386/kernel/efi.c


  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-09-27  8:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-26 20:30 [gentoo-dev] ship app-arch/pbzip2 instead of app-arch/bzip2 Michael Mol
2012-09-26 20:43 ` Matt Turner
2012-09-26 21:27   ` Florian Philipp
2012-09-26 21:53     ` Michael Mol
2012-09-27  7:22       ` Florian Philipp
2012-09-27 15:09         ` Florian Philipp
2012-09-27  9:23   ` Piotr Szymaniak
2012-10-29 14:13     ` Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
2012-10-29 14:39       ` Rich Freeman
2012-10-31 13:56         ` Sergey Popov
2013-01-02 23:11         ` Pacho Ramos
2013-01-03  1:28           ` Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
2013-01-03 10:30             ` Samuli Suominen
2013-01-03 10:35               ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2012-09-26 21:49 ` Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2012-09-26 21:59   ` Michael Mol
2012-09-26 22:31     ` Mike Gilbert
2012-09-26 22:57       ` Christoph Junghans
2012-09-26 23:57         ` Michael Mol
2012-09-27  0:55         ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2012-09-27  8:58   ` Tobias Klausmann [this message]
2012-09-27  9:48 ` Ulrich Mueller

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