Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751603AbWIUVkM (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Sep 2006 17:40:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751609AbWIUVkM (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Sep 2006 17:40:12 -0400 Received: from mail.gurulabs.com ([67.137.148.7]:2485 "EHLO mail.gurulabs.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751603AbWIUVkK (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Sep 2006 17:40:10 -0400 Subject: Re: Smaller compressed kernel source tarballs? From: Dax Kelson To: Lennart Sorensen Cc: Linux kernel , Linus Torvalds In-Reply-To: <20060921204250.GN13641@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> References: <1158870777.24172.23.camel@mentorng.gurulabs.com> <20060921204250.GN13641@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 15:40:09 -0600 Message-Id: <1158874809.24172.45.camel@mentorng.gurulabs.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.3 (2.6.3-1.fc5.5) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 551 Lines: 17 On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 16:42 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > But after you download it once, you can just get the diff next time. > How is the decompression time on 7zip versus bzip2 and gzip? Decompression times on 2.6.18 are as follows: gzip: 0m3.509s 7zip: 0m10.012s bzip2: 0m22.703s Dax Kelson - 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/