Hi Giancarlo, > Of course lzop will be faster than xz, but mkinitcpio's default is gz, > which should be comparable, at least in speed, with lzop.
A slap-dash test. $ perf stat -e instructions gzip <initramfs-linux-lts-fallback >/dev/null Performance counter stats for 'gzip': 19,533,249,541 instructions:u 19.642066695 seconds time elapsed 19.540737000 seconds user 0.100003000 seconds sys $ perf stat -e instructions lzop <initramfs-linux-lts-fallback >/dev/null Performance counter stats for 'lzop': 1,233,520,108 instructions:u 1.129177816 seconds time elapsed 1.092271000 seconds user 0.036743000 seconds sys $ gzip is about twenty times slower. 1,233,520,108 / 19,533,249,541 = 0.0631497644777874596 1.129177816 / 19.642066695 = 0.05748772944994829119 Yes, my computer is probably slower than most, but then perhaps so is the OP's. -- Cheers, Ralph.