Re: [Bug-tar] GNU tar 1.20

[Kevin Day]

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 4:35 PM, John Hein <address@hidden> wrote:
> Kevin Day wrote at 08:09 -0500 on Sep 11, 2008:
>  > Here are it's times relative to bzip2, gzip, and lzop (lzip has a
>  > scary 9minute compression time):
>
> Can you add lzma utils to your impromptu benchmark?  Just curious.
> http://tukaani.org/lzma/
>

These (for obvious reasons) were performed on the same system as the
others were in my previous reply:

# time ~/lzma-4.32.7/src/lzma/lzma linux-2.6.26.3-olpc.tar
real    9m26.749s
user    9m19.044s
sys     0m0.807s

# ls -lh
-rw-r-----  1 turtle turtle  74M Sep 17 02:11 linux-2.6.26.3-olpc.tar.lzma

# time ~/lzma-4.32.7/src/lzma/lzma -d linux-2.6.26.3-olpc.tar.lzma
real    0m16.384s
user    0m10.643s
sys     0m1.127s

The lzma utils just barely squeezes past lzip in performance in all
cases, including size.

-- 
Kevin Day