Hi,
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix
skribis:
> From fa2ead6ac0f6c005e6392d6073122c7191e08944 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
> Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2019 09:03:27 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] pack: Add zstd compressor.
>
> * guix/scripts/pack.scm
Hi,
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice skribis:
> It's not clear where you want to see zstd used. Here's a trivial
> patch to add Zstd to ‘guix pack’, if that's what you mean.
I suppose that was for substitutes, in reference to:
https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/substitutes-are-now-available-as-lzip/
The
Romulas,
It's not clear where you want to see zstd used. Here's a trivial
patch to add Zstd to ‘guix pack’, if that's what you mean.
I didn't submit it in the past because I dread bikeshedding the
compression level. -3 is the default, and compresses slightly
better than gzip in a fraction
http://www.zstd.net/
Zstandard is a real-time compression algorithm, providing high compression
ratios. It offers a very wide range of compression / speed trade-off, while
being backed by a very fast decoder (see
[benchmarks](http://facebook.github.io/zstd/#benchmarks) below). It also offers
