Re: dist-xz compression level

2010-04-12 Thread Pavel Sanda
> 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

Re: dist-xz compression level

2010-04-12 Thread Pavel Sanda
> 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

Re: dist-xz compression level

2010-04-12 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
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. is the compression level configureable somehow? Regards, Andreas

Re: dist-xz compression level

2010-04-11 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Andreas, * Andreas Jellinghaus wrote on Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 09:37:13PM CEST: > 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. Well, does somebody have numbers (memory, t

Re: dist-xz compression level

2010-04-11 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Pavel, * Pavel Sanda wrote on Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 01:22:06PM CEST: > the newly added dist-xz target produce worse compressed archives > than lzma-dist. The reason is that automake call lzma with > best compression while it won't use -9 level for xz. > Is this intention or bug? Bug, I guess