Re: [gentoo-user] Speed up with pbzip2 or not!?

[Florian Philipp <lists@f_philipp.fastmail.net>]

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On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 13:54 +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
> On Sonntag, 27. Januar 2008, Justin wrote:
> > Thats a good point. Now it worked really fast.
> > But then the questions is why should I use pbzip2 for decompression with
> > portage? I think most tarballs are packed only with the normal
> > compression algorithm!
> > The WIKI articel pretends a gain of speed which wont be!
> 
> and that is why you should never trust wiki-articles. Everybody can write them 
> and say whatever they want.

Well, many eyes see much. It's all a matter of checking, just as with
open source software...

To the topic:
I've unmerged pbzip2 after reading its docs. ... seemed too much
trouble. I'll try it again when it is suitable as a drop-in replacement
or when portage can make use of it. In the mean time, if I need good
compression with more than one thread, I use p7zip's lzma
implementation.

By the way, as soon as I come into contact with some decent scripting
languages (and no longer this closed source LabVIEW I currently have to
work with), I'll try to build a wrapper around p7zip to create a drop-in
replacement for gzip, bzip2 and zip. 

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