Am Montag, 15. Februar 2010 19:32:32 schrieb Andreas Radke: > 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!
SMP will be supported in the next version of xz. And yes, it takes a long time to compress openoffice. On my old PC it took 4 minutes to recompress. But package size went down from 166MB to 124MB. So, unless you can upload with more than 316 KByte/s (I hope I got that right ;-)) you are still faster. (and I know that your PC is a lot faster than mine) So even if you only take your own time into account you still win. Adding the time/traffic decrease of all mirrors and users to our calculation we will clearly win. -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre