suggestion to use lzma for snapshots, maybe more?

Gerald Pfeifer gerald@pfeifer.com
Sun Feb 14 14:18:00 GMT 2010


On Wed, 13 Jan 2010, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
>> I was idly looking through a couple of snapshots of the gcc -trunk line.
>> I am by no means a compiler developer, but I did notice that you aren't
>> using lzma for compression.  I don't know if bandwidth is at all a
>> concern, but I can point to a >20% drop in download size:
> lzma (the file format) is obsolete and has been replaced by xz.

I think this is a good point, but it also sees a bit premature given
all the environments GCC is used on.  Certainly for snapshots we can
be more aggressive than releases, and I'll make sure to keep an eye
on this.  Thanks!

Gerald



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