[PATCH xorg-gtest 01/11] Drop .gz tarballs, bz2 is enough

Ángel González ingenit at zoho.com
Mon Nov 12 14:01:28 PST 2012


On 09/11/12 05:58, Matt Turner wrote:
> Perhaps the bigger advantage of xz over bz2 is decompression speed. In
> many cases, single threaded xz decompression is faster than
> two-threaded parallel bz2 decompression.

What do you mean by "two-threaded parallel bz2 decompression" ?
I don't think it can be done in what I'd call "the traditional meaning"
(taking a random file compressed with bzip2(1) and decompressing faster
by using two threads instead of one)...



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