> Well, does somebody have numbers (memory, time, compression) as to what
> is reasonable?
I didn't make any testing, but the report came from the observation
that result was +300kb on 9 mb. The compression was slow, but
decompression is not affected.
pavel
> isn't xz extremely slw with -9?
> maybe it wasn't a bug, bit intentionally not used,
> as that huge extra amount of time doesn't result in
> that many bytes saved.
Compared to the total time of make dist its IMHO
acceptable. But configurability won't hurt of course.
Pavel