[arch-general] [arch-announce] Moving to Zstandard images by default on mkinitcpio

[Geo Kozey]

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> From: Kevin Morris via arch-general <arch-general at lists.archlinux.org>
> Sent: Mon Feb 22 02:12:20 CET 2021
> To: General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general at lists.archlinux.org>
> Cc: Kevin Morris <kevr at 0cost.org>
> Subject: Re: [arch-general] [arch-announce] Moving to Zstandard images by default on mkinitcpio
> 
> 
> A 10 second improvement is _large_. You may think that you don't need it
> because you're sitting at your computer, but think about servers, vms,
> automated systems... Every second makes things quicker. Moving from 20
> seconds to 10 seconds is halving its boot time.
> 
> That is a good thing.

I agree however someone benchmark showed it's 0.1s not 10s difference (0.117415s vs 
0.229915s).

Yours sincerely

G. K.