[gobolinux-users] Re: p7zip instead of bz2

[Hisham Muhammad]

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 23:50:52 -0800 (PST), zika <zika at lova.every1.net> wrote:
> How about using p7zip instead of bz2 for package compression?
> It is quite better.

I did some benchmarks on a few compression apps a while ago (I'll post
the results if I find them). Yes, p7zip has a very good compression
ratio, but compression/decompression times were problematic. I worked
a bit on it, but it's still slower than the Windows version.

Here's the thread on the p7zip forum:
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1211607&forum_id=383043
 
-- Hisham