Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964944AbWEUV7l (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 May 2006 17:59:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964949AbWEUV7l (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 May 2006 17:59:41 -0400 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.191]:7664 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964944AbWEUV7k convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 May 2006 17:59:40 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=eJkNOXZLQE8hnmu7m09sfBuYb5UPu0sWJCNJBdq3KC9xnAedjzpzjfpnBzQDSBKkpKA1brx8+0Y7L7B48UZGoA/FhUzqvk+Gezl0dDSPXgTLSOV8OftL6X8pMRVA3U47S8BYS/XMWzFfMmGP/Cm/qrCvf0dVEf2XwWvGoDIrl1w= Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 23:59:03 +0200 From: Diego Calleja To: Sam Vilain Cc: cw@f00f.org, s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk, jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, apiszcz@lucidpixels.com Subject: Re: Linux Kernel Source Compression Message-Id: <20060521235903.1a058b23.diegocg@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4470DEC4.6050308@vilain.net> References: <200605212003.32063.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> <20060521210056.GA3500@taniwha.stupidest.org> <4470DEC4.6050308@vilain.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.17; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1044 Lines: 22 El Mon, 22 May 2006 09:42:28 +1200, Sam Vilain escribi?: > it's currently faster for me to download and unpack a .gz than to wait > the extra time for bzip2 to decompress. I've always found it quicker For kernel patches and kernel releases it sure doesn't have a lot of sense to switch, you don't gain too much. LZMA has its gains, though. It's probably a interesting choice for packaging software: You may get some extra space in the CD thanks to the extra compression, and the faster decompressing could make installs a bit faster. While LZMA is slower as hell compressing in the "best compression" mode, is faster than bzip2 when compressing and decompressing at the same compression levels than bzip2 (according to the previous web). That pretty much means it's just better. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/