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I use xz on my A1200 all of the time, and Amiga is the stereotypical system where maximum possible compression matters over everything else. Don't make assumpti

I use xz on my A1200 all of the time, and Amiga is the stereotypical system where maximum possible compression matters over everything else. Don't make assumptions about me.

snvzz 7y ago
I applaud your patience. Even with my vampire, I'll use something faster whether at all possible. May I ask, why xz over, say, PAQ8PF?
- Annatar 7y ago
  Because my Amiga: volume is actually an NFS share on my Solaris 10 central storage server in the basement. With xz(1) I'm easily portable across systems. And you're talking to a guy who had his C128D spend all nights crunching intros + pic + game at 1 MHz in Cruel Cruncher 2.5+ and Time Cruncher 5.0 before that. xz(1) on a MC68030 or the Vampire is super fast in comparison.
  - snvzz 7y ago
    So Zstd won't run/build on Solaris or AmigaOS? Solaris 10 as in the last one from Sun (Damn Oracle...) is an interesting choice. Does openindiana not run well on the old hardware?
    - Annatar 7y ago
      I don't know whether it'll build because I'm interested in maximum compression -- time spent compressing is immaterial to me since it's only done once. It's like compiling -- I don't care how long it takes if it generates fast machine code, because it's running the generated machine code that will matter many, many times afterwards. Is Core2 Quad with 8GB of RAM or a Sun X4100 M2 "older hardware"?