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Re: Add Gitweb support for LZMA compressed snapshots

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Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 1, 2009, 14:34 UTC
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On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 09:43:39AM +0200, Alex Riesen wrote:
> 
> And the whole project seems to be very young (listen on ohloh since 2007).
> And it is not in current stable distributions. Exotic thing.

The project seems to be it is developed together with Igor Pavlov, who is the author of 7-Zip (and now 7-Zip also supports LZMA2 and XZ format). Accordingly to Igor Pavlov:

   LZMA2 provides the following advantages over LZMA:
   1) Better compression ratio for data than can't be compressed.
   It can store such blocks of data in uncompressed form.
   Also it decompresses such data faster.
   2) Better multithreading support. If you compress big file, LZMA2 can split
   that file to chunks and compress these chunks in multiple threads.

Clearly XZ is not very popular yet, but I would not call it as exotic. At least, I expect it to be supported by future distributives.

Dmitry
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  3. Alex RiesenAug 1, 2009
  4. Dmitry PotapovAug 1, 2009
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  6. Jim MeyeringAug 1, 2009
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