"tar -c|gzip" faster than "tar -cz"?!?
Tim Kientzle
tim at kientzle.com
Fri Oct 13 09:48:18 PDT 2006
Oliver Fromme wrote:
> Meanwhile I had a quick look at the code: gzip uses some
> optimized assembler code ... Maybe that's the reason why
> gzip is noticeably faster.
Anyone care to try this test on PPC, ARM, or Sparc?
There's a move afoot to replace the GPL gzip with
a more openly-licensed gzip implemented on top of
libz. I wonder if the libz implementors have similar
assembly optimizations that we should be using?
Tim Kientzle
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