X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=FZG5ZJyBlEmm6LUvgkBMOdLt2fDtQuiFyhbu0XkHpqt iasJU073QDDaDzGHxwWTofxy+P0OAQ271n19eBoY8I/GCfPYWAHgFK3sa4yiWQEq 4TXoETnrMccdauoQKWkg3l07UZaGI8vgAc0WSqyiZWOgdqnVTk0GY122s8GdglYk = DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=JWmtGCfFyUjpc9RTG4T0cTHgZMA=; b=no78NHxrqm80nfo4d bgHb2vMA5J8swPB6+J9ZkmE1aE0quR0csuEbrcCSSttv/OXVnlvI0S6NSKXygIH3 +mATKPZpRpbRskbUiKCNbRRn4qZD0oRscuORit6HpMXuOiJpYYa+OdYEzJZWZV0e QEnU84h3P7wdCZUKGJb5oZUH8I= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-4.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 Message-ID: <5217A6E8.4000109@etr-usa.com> Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 12:16:08 -0600 From: Warren Young User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130801 Thunderbird/17.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: .tar.xz for snapshots? References: <52178DCF.1000001@etr-usa.com> <20130823171546.GA6035@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <20130823180918.GA1584@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <20130823181443.GD2562@calimero.vinschen.de> In-Reply-To: <20130823181443.GD2562@calimero.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 8/23/2013 12:14, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Aug 23 14:09, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 12:00:58PM -0600, Keith Christian wrote: >>> Perhaps we should test to see whether we want to trade compression for time. >> >> The only time that the end-user has to worry about is download time + >> uncompress time. I think that the win with xz compression outweighs any >> increase in uncompress time. > > Doesn't xz also have a faster uncompression than bzip2? Yup: http://tukaani.org/lzma/benchmarks.html -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple