Closed Artoria2e5 closed 1 year ago
xz(1) suggests using pb=0 for general English text. https://bugs.gentoo.org/169260#c19 shows that doing so cuts 1/3 from the compressed size, which is big.
But do note that man-db search is awful slow for non-gz compression because of all the pipework involved. gz used to be slow to, until man-db started doing zlib decompress. See uhhh... somewhere around https://lore.kernel.org/linux-man/44768e26-ed92-0562-2318-68fec781126b@gmail.com/T/#m25978be2ce8245c67773911dbeb33140604e6d77.
Oh and xz without pb=0 doesn't provide much more compression than gzip -9, which is very normal given the tiny files. Maybe we should just go for gz.
xz(1) suggests using pb=0 for general English text. https://bugs.gentoo.org/169260#c19 shows that doing so cuts 1/3 from the compressed size, which is big.
But do note that man-db search is awful slow for non-gz compression because of all the pipework involved. gz used to be slow to, until man-db started doing zlib decompress. See uhhh... somewhere around https://lore.kernel.org/linux-man/44768e26-ed92-0562-2318-68fec781126b@gmail.com/T/#m25978be2ce8245c67773911dbeb33140604e6d77.
Oh and xz without pb=0 doesn't provide much more compression than gzip -9, which is very normal given the tiny files. Maybe we should just go for gz.