On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 04:15:59PM +0200, Mikolaj Izdebski wrote: > "lbzip2" was the fastest compressor and decompressor in all tests. > It the best command for interactive use. > > "lbzip2 -u" always produced smallest files (even smaller than bzip2) > while consuming the least amount of resources (CPU power and memory). > This directly translates to lowest bills in cloud, which makes "lbzip2 > -u" the best choice here. But... the size difference in your test cases appear to be 0.1% and 0.02%. Am I reading that right? And, compressing linux-3.12.6.tar with xz instead of bzip2 gives a 15.6%, or with xz -9, 19.7%. Of course, that's very slow, and the other resource factors are important too. (And lbzip2 is impressively fast.) -- Matthew Miller -- Fedora Project -- <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> "Tepid change for the somewhat better!" -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct