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| author | Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com> | 2012-06-29T18·26-0400 |
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| committer | Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com> | 2012-06-29T19·24-0400 |
| commit | 4911a10a4e51102a21a5d123a852c75d2ec92dbc (patch) | |
| tree | 6e02ca6d92cc037efc89801960f4997a7d54e168 /configure.ac | |
| parent | 49cd7387ad6546571ca31a41f208091b482defaa (diff) | |
Use XZ compression in binary caches
XZ compresses significantly better than bzip2. Here are the compression ratios and execution times (using 4 cores in parallel) on my /var/run/current-system (3.1 GiB): bzip2: total compressed size 849.56 MiB, 30.8% [2m08] xz -6: total compressed size 641.84 MiB, 23.4% [6m53] xz -7: total compressed size 621.82 MiB, 22.6% [7m19] xz -8: total compressed size 599.33 MiB, 21.8% [7m18] xz -9: total compressed size 588.18 MiB, 21.4% [7m40] Note that compression takes much longer. More importantly, however, decompression is much faster: bzip2: 1m47.274s xz -6: 0m55.446s xz -7: 0m54.119s xz -8: 0m52.388s xz -9: 0m51.842s The only downside to using -9 is that decompression takes a fair amount (~65 MB) of memory.
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diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index 7b814dedcb..28959198d5 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -161,6 +161,7 @@ NEED_PROG(perl, perl) NEED_PROG(sed, sed) NEED_PROG(tar, tar) NEED_PROG(bzip2, bzip2) +NEED_PROG(xz, xz) AC_PATH_PROG(dot, dot) AC_PATH_PROG(dblatex, dblatex) AC_PATH_PROG(gzip, gzip) |