I have a suggestion/proposal for the compression method of the fgdata
package: Instead of using tar.bz2, we can use tar.xz (XZ is based on
LZMA) to get a lower compression ratio. Based on comparisons done by
other people, here are the effects:
+ Less time for decompression compared to bzip2.
+ Smaller file size (higher compression)
- More time for compression
- More memory usage for compression /and/ decompression (around 300-500
MB during compression at highest compression level (9))
I re-compressed the 758 MB bzip2 file into a 690 MB xz file with default
compression settings. The entire process took 15 minutes on my computer.
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Saikrishna Arcot
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