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Re: [PATCH] dircolors: recognize .zst and .tzst suffixes
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Jim Meyering |
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Re: [PATCH] dircolors: recognize .zst and .tzst suffixes |
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Wed, 31 Aug 2016 10:44:51 -0700 |
On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 10:25 AM, Pádraig Brady <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 30/08/16 00:46, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> The zstd compression tools are up and coming. This change teaches
>> dircolors (and hence ls --color) about its suffixes.
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> +1
> BTW, there is an updated just released about this format:
> https://code.facebook.com/posts/1658392934479273/smaller-and-faster-data-compression-with-zstandard/
Thanks for the review and the added link.
I'll add that to the commit message.
The timing is not coincidental :-)
I wonder if the much faster decompression speed of this format/tool
will make it the new choice for deb/rpm payload compression. It gets
within about 8% of xz/lzma for the size of the compressed result, yet
decompression speed is 2-3 times faster.