Re: Could distributed tarballs be compressed with xz instead of bzip2?

[Harald Hanche-Olsen]

[Chong Yidong <address@hidden> (2012-02-01 02:51:09 UTC)]

> Ulrich Mueller <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Also xz can be uncompressed much faster:
> 
> I'll do that for Emacs 24.4.  Thanks for the suggestion.

On the other hand, a cursory glance at the xz manual page indicates
that xz may have rather extreme memory requirements: Several gigabytes
in some cases! Is that something to worry about?

- Harald