Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2017 17:01:10 -0700 From: Conrad Meyer <cem@freebsd.org> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@freebsd.org> Cc: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r316978 - in head: contrib/zstd etc/mtree lib lib/libzstd share/mk usr.bin usr.bin/zstd Message-ID: <CAG6CVpUAw97a4Stc7OaPxcUhvQGtyaJF5ABF_DznMMXHSZNFqg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201704152337.v3FNb2m1014053@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> References: <201704152005.v3FK5M2j002459@repo.freebsd.org> <201704152337.v3FNb2m1014053@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
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On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 4:37 PM, Rodney W. Grimes <freebsd@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote: > And we need this in base for what great purpose??? Can you tone down the condescension, Rod? Being rude doesn't help you make your case. We already have zlib, bzip2, and xz in base. zstd is just one more that fills an important niche. If you're not familiar with it, zstd is a relatively recent new compression algorithm that provides a better compression/performance point relative to zlib at any point along the -0/-9 curve. It performs favorably to bzip2 and xz as well, although it's not dominant at all points relative to those two. See the last figure in https://clearlinux.org/blogs/linux-os-data-compression-options-comparing-behavior for a better idea of what niche it fills. Thanks, Conrad
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