• katze
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    7 hours ago

    The former for speed with source trees or such

    xz -0 is faster than gzip and has a higher compression ratio.

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      6 hours ago

      That can’t be right, all reports I have read about comparing xz with gzip tells me that xz will have better compression but at a slower speed than gzip.

      Have you run a test of gzip at the same compression level with the same data?

      I don’t doubt that xz will be smaller, I doubt it will be quicker.