On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 19:32 +0100, Andreas Radke wrote: > any idea how long it takes to compress OOo main package? as far as I > know it needs a lot more time than gz/bz compression. does xz make use > of SMP cpus? > > if not it's not an improvement and we should think about pbzip that > now > supports tar interaction and pipes!
Depends on the compression level. It's slower than gzip compression, but faster than bzip2 if you don't select the highest compression level. I guess you'll save more time uploading an xz-compressed openoffice package than you'll lose by compressing it with that.