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Re: Why I am happy to dump gzip for xz


From: Mike Frysinger
Subject: Re: Why I am happy to dump gzip for xz
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 11:27:17 -0500
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On Tuesday 06 March 2012 04:57:27 Jim Meyering wrote:
> Why I am happy to dump gzip for xz:
>   - xz decompresses more quickly

is that true ?  i thought last i looked, they were close, but gzip was 
consistently slightly faster.  maybe if the bottleneck is more I/O than 
CPU/memory, xz would win ?
-mike

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