Re: [Bug-tar] GNU TAR or STAR -- speed comparision

[Tim Kientzle]

> star is definitely much faster than GNU tar ,-)
> If you know a fater tar implementation than star, send the name,
> a test and a bug report!

In my testing, star didn't perform very well extracting large
archives to memory-backed disk.  (10% to 15% slower than either
bsdtar or GNU tar.)

Of course, this was a little while ago and may not be
relevant now.  At the time (March, 2007), I believe I
was testing star 1.5a73, GNU tar 1.16.1, and
bsdtar 2.0.22.  I should probably try to repeat those
tests with newer versions.

Cheers,

Tim Kientzle