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On typical source trees and mesh data xz is in the range of twice at good at compressing than gzip. That is very significant imo.
by bhouston 11y ago
On typical source trees and mesh data xz is in the range of twice at good at compressing than gzip. That is very significant imo.
- barrkel 11y agoThat's only really much good if you're in the business of archiving things like that. For most people, source trees are ad-hoc downloads for patch fixes, oddball platform compiles, etc. And then the universality of gzip is better than any marginal space savings from xz.