"tar -c|gzip" faster than "tar -cz"?!?

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Thu Oct 12 05:50:54 PDT 2006


On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 11:20:15AM +0100, Steven Hartland wrote:
> Just a silly one but are you guys using the same
> version of gzip, would be worth just checking?

Grmbl. Can't reproduce my original tests now. I'm not sure what changed
in the mean time. Doing some performing testing with libz alone would be
worth it.

Joerg


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