Re: Smaller compressed kernel source tarballs?

[Bernd Eckenfels]

In article <20061002033511.GB12695@zimmer> you wrote:
> The pace of compression algorithm development is high enough that I'd
> suggest that the bar be placed quite high before switching to a new
> compression format that's not reverse compatible.
> 
> For those interested, I'm working on publishing a proof of concept that 
> can make most tarballs compress better. About 2-3% better in my tests 
> with bzip2/gzip on the Linux kernel source code.

3% is not a high bar.

Gruss
Bernd
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