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Date:      Thu, 3 Apr 2014 12:48:12 +0400 (MSK)
From:      Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>
To:        Glen Barber <gjb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r264046 - in head: release share/man/man7
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1404031243170.5834@woozle.rinet.ru>
In-Reply-To: <201404021653.s32Gr8nl071605@svn.freebsd.org>
References:  <201404021653.s32Gr8nl071605@svn.freebsd.org>

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Glen,

On Wed, 2 Apr 2014, Glen Barber wrote:

> Author: gjb
> Date: Wed Apr  2 16:53:07 2014
> New Revision: 264046
> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/264046
> 
> Log:
>   Use xz(1) instead of gzip(1) to compress release images
>   when WITH_COMPRESSED_IMAGES is used.

Maybe invent some variable defaulting to /usr/bin/xz so admin could use 
/usr/local/bin/pxz or other compatible implementation? 

On 4-core not-too-fast machine I observed pxz more than 3 time faster than xz 
while only slighly (5-10%) worse in packing ratio


-- 
Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
[ FreeBSD committer:                                 marck@FreeBSD.org ]
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