From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42D9D138010 for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2012 08:59:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 57E7521C0E2; Thu, 27 Sep 2012 08:59:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.schwarzvogel.de (kaini.schwarzvogel.de [178.63.25.207]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87E3A21C06E for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2012 08:58:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from klausman by mail.schwarzvogel.de with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1TH9vP-000FXd-RT for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 27 Sep 2012 10:58:27 +0200 Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 10:58:27 +0200 From: Tobias Klausmann To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ship app-arch/pbzip2 instead of app-arch/bzip2 Message-ID: <20120927085827.GA55907@kaini.schwarzvogel.de> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <50637878.1080500@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In-Reply-To: <50637878.1080500@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: Tobias Klausmann X-Archives-Salt: 2e528766-1379-4fa4-a216-95e88e81a6cb X-Archives-Hash: 90f1685be88f9bdd8d5d75fc5120db62 Hi!=20 On Wed, 26 Sep 2012, Ch=C3=AD-Thanh Christopher Nguy=E1=BB=85n 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:=20 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 --=20 printk (KERN_ALERT "You are screwed! " ...); linux-2.6.6/arch/i386/kernel/efi.c