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Re: curl release tarball file formats

From: Daniel Stenberg via curl-library <curl-library_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 16:08:51 +0200 (CEST)

On Mon, 21 Oct 2024, Daniel Stenberg via curl-library wrote:

> 2702791 7z
> 2745360 tar.xz
> 3208971 tar.bz2
> 4157489 tar.gz
> 6560470 zip

Minor follow-up:

People on Mastodon mentioned zstd as another possible option. I added it to
this set and it ended up a few bytes larger than tar.xz.

People then mentioned that zstd decompresses faster, but on my machine I
unpack the tar.xz file in 92 milliseconds. I don't think unpacking speed is a
particular concern for our use case.

Everything combined, I see no strong reason to change the existing set of used
file formats.

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