From: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
To: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: "J.H." <warthog19@eaglescrag.net>,
Mark A Rada <marada@uwaterloo.ca>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Add Gitweb support for LZMA compressed snapshots
Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 18:34:03 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090801143403.GC10264@dpotapov.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0908010043y51680392r69a0090aba520b13@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 09:43:39AM +0200, Alex Riesen wrote:
>
> And the whole project seems to be very young (listen on ohloh since 2007).
> And it is not in current stable distributions. Exotic thing.
The project seems to be it is developed together with Igor Pavlov, who
is the author of 7-Zip (and now 7-Zip also supports LZMA2 and XZ
format). Accordingly to Igor Pavlov:
LZMA2 provides the following advantages over LZMA:
1) Better compression ratio for data than can't be compressed.
It can store such blocks of data in uncompressed form.
Also it decompresses such data faster.
2) Better multithreading support. If you compress big file, LZMA2 can split
that file to chunks and compress these chunks in multiple threads.
Clearly XZ is not very popular yet, but I would not call it as exotic.
At least, I expect it to be supported by future distributives.
Dmitry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-01 14:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-30 5:48 Add Gitweb support for LZMA compressed snapshots Mark A Rada
2009-07-30 7:44 ` J.H.
2009-08-01 7:43 ` Alex Riesen
2009-08-01 14:34 ` Dmitry Potapov [this message]
2009-08-01 14:38 ` André Goddard Rosa
2009-08-01 14:58 ` Jim Meyering
2009-08-01 18:51 ` Alex Riesen
2009-07-30 7:52 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-07-30 8:31 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-07-30 8:43 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-07-31 15:45 ` Felipe Contreras
2009-08-01 12:34 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-08-01 13:10 ` Felipe Contreras
2009-08-01 14:04 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2009-08-01 16:07 ` Mark A Rada
2009-08-01 21:39 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2009-08-01 14:13 ` Dmitry Potapov
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