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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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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