Change to bzip2?

[Sean Middleditch]

On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 07:28 -0800, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> --On Wednesday, February 02, 2005 3:45 PM +0100 Florian La Roche 
> <laroche at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > I think staying with gzip is ok as it really is a good middle ground
> > between speed and disk compression ratio. bzip2 "feels" noticable slower.
> 
> Is that true on extraction or only on creation?

Both.

I wonder how much time has been spent by assembler-gods trying to
optimize bzip2 for various architectures, though...