[Interest] update on building Qt/Linux with clang?

Thiago Macieira thiago.macieira at intel.com
Wed Nov 7 08:17:52 CET 2018


On Tuesday, 6 November 2018 18:05:43 PST Konstantin Tokarev wrote:
> bzip2 still has one valid use case: it requires less memory for compression

Same test as the other email

gzip -9: 	6272 kB RAM RSS
bzip2 -9:	8616 kB
xz -2:	113988 kB
zstd -14:	154684 kB
zstd -19:	198300 kB
xz -6:	517672 kB
xz -9:	691856 kB

So, yes, it does. But you usually do have enough RAM to use better 
compression.
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