[arch-dev-public] LZMA - in or out? ([signoff] libarchive 2.6.0)

[Andreas Radke]

Am Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:59:33 -0600
schrieb "Dan McGee" <dpmcgee at gmail.com>:

> Yes, LZMA took nearly 5 minutes to compress this package which gzip
> accomplished in 22 seconds.

I guess it doesn't support parallel threaded compression. I couldn't
find any good information about smp support. If only pbzip would
integrate pipe support....

I'm fine with moving lzma into core. But then we should also think
about using the best current compression format for our repos.

-Andy