| 29 Mar 2022 |
toonn | I think I'll just try both and do some minimal benchmarking. | 12:54:13 |
atemu12 | toonn: At higher LZMA levels, that's actually not necessarily true IIRC. Also, a user hacking on the stdenv likely unpacks the tarball more often than they download it and likely needs to download so many source files that the difference between LZMA and zstd is a drop in the water | 12:56:22 |
toonn | It's also the bandwidth from the project's perspective, of course. | 12:57:36 |
toonn | And the tarball only needs to be unpacked once. Unless the result is garbage collected. But the tarball itself would probably also be GCed, I suppose. | 12:58:18 |