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Formaline: Use bzip2 or xz if available to compress thorn source code
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Formaline Could use bzip2 or xz if available to compress thorn source code; this would reduce the size of the tarballs by up to a factor of 2.
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Tried this (xz and bzip2). The space savings are minimal, less than 1%. Don't know what is wrong. Maybe the tarballs are too small, maybe ASCII is already handled very well by gzip.
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Here are the statistics for a fairly large source tree:
$ du -sk output_source.* 59108 output_source.gz 59444 output_source.bz2 59020 output_source.xz
This used -9 for all compressors.
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I am closing this ticket since the idea didn't work out.
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This would be very useful. I spend a lot of time syncing formaline tarballs. It would also be useful for them to be hardlinked between restarts of a simulation, but that is another ticket...