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I wish Rust would add this, but they don't seem interested at all: https://github.com/rust-lang/rustup/issues/1858 https://github.com/rust-lang/rustup/issues/1

• staticassertion 4y ago
  They seem very interested. There's lots of benchmarks and discussion. It just looks like zstd would take more space than xz - it wasn't a universally better solution. The concerns noted are totally reasonable and are based on real world issues that the teams that maintain this infra have. What's obvious, however, is that there was a lot of interest.
• JoshTriplett 4y ago
  We're interested. I'd love to see this happen. But it does require several different things to change, and rustup wouldn't be the starting place (apart from needing to have support for it).
• asveikau 4y ago
  That thread doesn't appear to be uninterested people. They're asking about rationale, saying they may be asking the wrong people, brainstorming other things that would help, and asking for data.
• remram 4y ago
  Is the latency of the Rust installation process important? I can see why you would want it to be efficient, economical in bandwidth, and fast enough in all scenarios. But why does it need to be faster in situations where it is already quite fast?