From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>
Cc: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, apiszcz@lucidpixels.com
Subject: Re: Linux Kernel Source Compression
Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 14:00:56 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060521210056.GA3500@taniwha.stupidest.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200605212003.32063.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>
On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 08:03:32PM +0100, Alistair John Strachan wrote:
> Somebody needs to make lzma userspace tools (like p7zip) faster, not
> crash, and behave like a regular UNIX program. Then we need a patch
> to GNU tar to emerge, and for it to persist for at least 4
> years. Then maybe people will adopt this format..
why?
the gains aren't that great
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-21 21:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-21 14:35 Justin Piszcz
2006-05-21 18:40 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-05-21 18:56 ` Kasper Sandberg
2006-05-21 19:28 ` Justin Piszcz
2006-05-22 2:05 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2006-05-21 19:03 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-05-21 21:00 ` Chris Wedgwood [this message]
2006-05-21 21:22 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-05-21 21:42 ` Sam Vilain
2006-05-21 21:57 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-05-21 22:22 ` Sam Vilain
2006-05-21 22:29 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-05-22 19:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-05-21 21:59 ` Diego Calleja
2006-05-22 18:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-05-22 19:07 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-05-22 19:10 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-05-22 19:15 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-05-22 20:24 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-05-22 20:41 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-05-22 21:00 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-05-22 21:04 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-05-22 21:11 ` Joshua Hudson
2006-05-23 13:37 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-05-23 2:16 ` Nuri Jawad
2006-05-23 2:55 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2006-05-23 14:15 ` Ivan Novick
2006-05-23 14:23 ` Olivier Galibert
2006-05-23 14:47 ` Julian Seward
2006-05-23 16:35 ` Nuri Jawad
2006-05-25 11:42 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-05-31 22:51 ` Bill Davidsen
2006-05-23 13:38 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-05-23 15:28 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-05-31 22:56 ` Bill Davidsen
2006-05-26 4:11 ` Bruce Guenter
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