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  Please, consider using lzip instead of xz Antonio Diaz Diaz <antonio@gnu.org> - 2017-06-01 13:00 +0200

#1655006 — Please, consider using lzip instead of xz

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Dear Linux developers,

In 2010 Laszlo Ersek recommended[1] the plzip program to compress Linux 
tarballs. However his advice went unnoticed, and Linux developers chose 
xz instead.

[1] http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/3/21/202

Now I would like to present new evidence in favor of Laszlo's 
recommendation. Please, see it at
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html ,
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip_benchmark.html#xz2 and
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/plzip_benchmark.html

Please, could you reconsider your decision and use lzip instead of xz 
for the compression of Linux tarballs?


Thanks,
Antonio.

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