On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 01:03:03PM -0700, zooko wrote:
> > Well, the tar version compresses much better than zip because it is
> > streaming and doesn't have an index. since you tar then gzip, it
> > doesn't
> > compress each patch independently but rather compresses a single
> > stream
> > containing all the patches. since patches are extremely similar, this
> > results in substantial improvements over individually compressing each
> > file like zip does in order to individually access them via its index.
>
> Really? Perhaps you were talking about "zip" [1], but I am talking
> about "7z" a.k.a. "7-zip" [2].
Yes. I was thinking of zip. sorry. how does 'bzip2' compare actually?
John
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