Re: Autoconf distributions and xz dependency

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Fri, 2 Mar 2012, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> I tried to test how much peak memory 'xz' uses to decompress the autoconf 
> tarball but was (apparently) defeated by the strange way that 'xz' is linked. 
> I will try again with a different tool this weekend.

Ok, I have now measured how much memory the 'xz' I have here requires 
under Linux to decompress the autoconf beta tarball.  It requires 
67,184,168 bytes of heap memory.  This seems to match the xz 
documentation for the -9 compression level.

Bob
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