Pierre Neidhardt <m...@ambrevar.xyz> skribis: > Talking about this, I recently discussed with Ludovic the idea of compressing > nars in Lzip instead of gzip. > > http://lzip.nongnu.org/lzip.html (benchmark included) > > I can work on some Lzip guile-bindings, it should be quite easy, then we could > save some 10-50% (!!!) disk usage.
That would be sweet! Though we have to keep in mind that today’s ‘guix substitute’ doesn’t know about lzip at all (see (guix scripts substitute) and ‘call-with-decompressed-port’.) So while lzip would be my preference, we may not be able to use it until we can be sure our users can actually unpack it. Ludo’.