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Re: Could distributed tarballs be compressed with xz instead of bzip2?
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Could distributed tarballs be compressed with xz instead of bzip2? |
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Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:11:41 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.92 (gnu/linux) |
>> > 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?
Not really, especially as long as we also distribute a .gz version.
Stefan