ons, 01 08 2007 kl. 23:14 +0200, skrev Till Maas:
On Wednesday 01 August 2007 22:26:36 Bill Nottingham wrote:
> bz2 makes things somewhat smaller, with a significant increase in
> cpu time and memory usage; unknown how much that is worth it. rpm
> already gzips the payload.
LZMA[1], implemented in 7zip, seems to be a better choice than bzip2, but I
don't know, how high the benefits compared to gzip are.
We can turn to our friends in the Ubuntu community for numbers as they
actually tested this a while back.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Dpkg7Zip
- David