Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932602AbWJBCfj (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Oct 2006 22:35:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932603AbWJBCfj (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Oct 2006 22:35:39 -0400 Received: from 205-200-74-130.static.mts.net ([205.200.74.130]:14722 "EHLO Zimmer.boxheap.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932602AbWJBCfj (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Oct 2006 22:35:39 -0400 Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 22:35:11 -0500 From: Drew Scott Daniels To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Smaller compressed kernel source tarballs? Message-ID: <20061002033511.GB12695@zimmer> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 881 Lines: 20 ppmd, also in Debian had better compression than lzma. PAQ8i has even better compression, but isn't in Debian. See the maximumcompression web site or other archive comparison tests. The pace of compression algorithm development is high enough that I'd suggest that the bar be placed quite high before switching to a new compression format that's not reverse compatible. For those interested, I'm working on publishing a proof of concept that can make most tarballs compress better. About 2-3% better in my tests with bzip2/gzip on the Linux kernel source code. Drew Daniels Resume: http://www.boxheap.net/ddaniels/resume.html - 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/