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Re: Could distributed tarballs be compressed with xz instead of bzip2?
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Ulrich Mueller |
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Re: Could distributed tarballs be compressed with xz instead of bzip2? |
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Mon, 20 Aug 2012 09:38:05 +0200 |
>>>>> On Wed, 01 Feb 2012, Chong Yidong wrote:
>> Ulrich Mueller <address@hidden> writes:
>>> It would be considerably smaller (sizes are for "bzip2 -9" and
>>> "xz -6" which is the default):
>>>
>>> 51056640 emacs-24.0.92.tar.gz
>>> 41410560 emacs-24.0.92.tar.bz2
>>> 34443264 emacs-24.0.92.tar.xz
>>>
>>> Also xz can be uncompressed much faster:
>> I'll do that for Emacs 24.4. Thanks for the suggestion.
> Whoops, I mean 24.1.
What was the reason that you didn't?
Ulrich
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