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Re: support for lzma in automake?
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Jim Meyering |
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Re: support for lzma in automake? |
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Sun, 07 Oct 2007 08:48:14 +0200 |
address@hidden (Karl Berry) wrote:
> Could we have a new option in automake for making lzma-compressed
> tarballs, a la bzip2? The package to use is lzma-utils, from
> http://tukaani.org/lzma/. Generally, it compresses better and
> uncompresses faster than bzip.
Not just "better". Significantly better.
Coreutils compressed tarball goes from 5.3MB w/.bz2 to 3.3MB w/.lzma.
Emacs goes from ~30MB to ~24MB.
Decompression time is 2x to 2.5x faster.
Not surprisingly, compression is slower: from ~2x for coreutils
to about 3.5x for emacs.