On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Sedat Dilek <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 3:07 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi! >>> why do you name your BZ2-tarballs with the right and common >>> file-extensions ".tar.bz2"? >> >> That is something that just has been this way longer than anybody could >> remeber. I guess we can change it to tar.bz2 for next releases. >> > > Hi, > > ...and switch to tar.xz as well :-)? > > Some words to my statistics... > I did not use -9 (optimal compression) for both repacked tarballs. > xz uses "-6" as default for compression-level according to its man-page. > Unfortunately, bzip2 man-page reveals not much.
$ file ltp-full-20130109.tar.bz2 ltp-full-20130109.tar.bz2: bzip2 compressed data, block size = 900k So, file tells us "-9" :-). - Sedat - > FYI: The xz man-page has a nice section about compression-level in > combination with memory and cpu usage. > > Thorsten Glaser (a friend of mine) has reflected critically about the > usage of xz (especially using high values for compression) and also > compared with bzip2/gzip in his blog [1]. > Worth reading! > Yes, bzip2 is no more modern - don't use it anymore. > Save disc-space - save the planet :-)! > > Have fun! > > - Sedat - > > [1] > https://www.mirbsd.org/permalinks/wlog-10_e20130104-tg.htm#e20130104-tg_wlog-10 > >> -- >> Cyril Hrubis >> [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Java SE, Java EE, Eclipse, Spring, Hibernate, JavaScript, jQuery and much more. Keep your Java skills current with LearnJavaNow - 200+ hours of step-by-step video tutorials by Java experts. SALE $49.99 this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122612 _______________________________________________ Ltp-list mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltp-list
