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Re: curl release tarball file formats
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From: Jörn Franke via curl-library <curl-library_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 20:30:52 +0200
Zstd has multiple compression levels from 1-22 which allow to balance compressed size vs (de-)compression speed.
> Am 21.10.2024 um 16:09 schrieb Daniel Stenberg via curl-library <curl-library_at_lists.haxx.se>:
>
> 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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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 20:30:52 +0200
Zstd has multiple compression levels from 1-22 which allow to balance compressed size vs (de-)compression speed.
> Am 21.10.2024 um 16:09 schrieb Daniel Stenberg via curl-library <curl-library_at_lists.haxx.se>:
>
> 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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