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Re:Arch Linux propose changing compression method from xz to... by londons_explore on Monday March 25, 2019 @03:50AM (#19480885)
The increase in package size would worry me. The download and storage size of packages is nearly always more important than the decompression speed, since the package can be decompressed in parallel with the download.

Surely xz could be modified to produce the same bitstream on single core machines?

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