10 Mar
2008
10 Mar
'08
2:38 p.m.
On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 14:19 +0100, Firmicus wrote:
BTW, nothing beats gzip in terms of speed and memory footprint... But if you need higher rates of compression, then lzma seems to be a great alternative to bzip2.
Yes. And especially for LaTeX packages this seems good. Would probably also make sense to offer big packages as lzma instead of gz, but not sure how big the difference in size really is. But that few MBs are probably never worth the confusion it would make to offer packages in just another format...