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This is a polemic written by the author of a competing tool. You can tell xz isn’t so bad by the complete absence of any real world report of xz causing issues
by jl6 6y ago
This is a polemic written by the author of a competing tool.
You can tell xz isn’t so bad by the complete absence of any real world report of xz causing issues.
- saagarjha 6y agoThe only experience I have had with xz is uncompressing Apple’s Xcode archives. All I know about that is that it takes forever to do some sort of useless “signature verification”.
- vetinari 6y agoApple's xip format is based on xar, not xz.
- boomer_joe 6y agoI've never seen this article before, but it does not read like a polemic. Do you know of a rebuttal of the points mentioned?
- pwdisswordfish2 6y agoSo what if it's written by the author of a competing tool? Can you show that it's actually wrong instead of dismissing it as a ‘polemic’?
- LeoPanthera 6y ago"Competing" tool - I suppose, but an open source, free tool. He doesn't have any skin in the game. Describing it as a "polemic" seems like an overly emotional reaction. Did you actually read it? It seems a well-researched, well-informed article to me, with solid verifiable facts.