On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 01:18 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > One question: > > "# Support for the new XZ (aka LZMA) compression format in package > payloads and sources has been added." > > Is this still considered experimental? Are we considering switching to > it by default? Any benchmarks? MDV switched a cycle or two back. The benchmarks, IIRC, showed that LZMA is slightly slower than gzip but rather faster than bzip2 at decompress time, and compresses significantly better than either. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
