Re: Smaller compressed kernel source tarballs?

From: Dax Kelson
Date: Thu Sep 21 2006 - 17:40:34 EST


On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 16:42 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> But after you download it once, you can just get the diff next time.
> How is the decompression time on 7zip versus bzip2 and gzip?

Decompression times on 2.6.18 are as follows:

gzip: 0m3.509s
7zip: 0m10.012s
bzip2: 0m22.703s

Dax Kelson

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