linux-kernel - Re: Smaller compressed kernel source tarballs?

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Message-Id: <1158874809.24172.45.camel@mentorng.gurulabs.com>
Date:	Thu, 21 Sep 2006 15:40:09 -0600
From:	Dax Kelson <dax@...ulabs.com>
To:	Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca>
Cc:	Linux kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>
Subject: Re: Smaller compressed kernel source tarballs?

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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