Proposal for solving CD Size problems

Phillip Lougher phillip.lougher at gmail.com
Thu Sep 28 18:18:21 BST 2006


Vassilis Pandis <pandisv <at> yahoo.co.uk> writes:
> Results: 1m55s for LZMA , 22s for zlib. I removed most of the code in 
unsquashfs that writes to
> the disk to make sure that disk I/O is less of an issue. 

More than five times slower!  I'm glad I've resisted calls to move Squashfs 
over to LZMA compression, the compression improvements are not worth the speed 
slowdown.  I'm rather surprised SLAX and Puppy have moved over to Squashfs-LZMA.

Phillip





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