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Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 14:09:18 -0400
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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.

cgf

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