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Eelco Dolstra 4911a10a4e Use XZ compression in binary caches 
XZ compresses significantly better than bzip2.  Here are the
compression ratios and execution times (using 4 cores in parallel) on
my /var/run/current-system (3.1 GiB):

  bzip2: total compressed size 849.56 MiB, 30.8% [2m08]
  xz -6: total compressed size 641.84 MiB, 23.4% [6m53]
  xz -7: total compressed size 621.82 MiB, 22.6% [7m19]
  xz -8: total compressed size 599.33 MiB, 21.8% [7m18]
  xz -9: total compressed size 588.18 MiB, 21.4% [7m40]

Note that compression takes much longer.  More importantly, however,
decompression is much faster:

  bzip2: 1m47.274s
  xz -6: 0m55.446s
  xz -7: 0m54.119s
  xz -8: 0m52.388s
  xz -9: 0m51.842s

The only downside to using -9 is that decompression takes a fair
amount (~65 MB) of memory.
2012-06-29 15:24:52 -04:00
corepkgs Use XZ compression in binary caches 2012-06-29 15:24:52 -04:00
doc Update release notes 2012-06-23 14:59:13 -04:00
misc fixes to nix-worker systemd service descriptor: - remove commented-out lines - register the file for distribution in Makefile.am 2012-05-31 08:59:36 -04:00
perl Use XZ compression in binary caches 2012-06-29 15:24:52 -04:00
scripts Use XZ compression in binary caches 2012-06-29 15:24:52 -04:00
src nix-store -r: do substitutions in parallel 2012-06-27 16:58:15 -04:00
tests Urgh, modified the wrong file... 2012-04-14 19:52:58 +02:00
.gitignore Drop the externals directory 2012-03-18 23:54:57 +01:00
AUTHORS * Put something in here. 2004-11-07 20:30:02 +00:00
bootstrap.sh bootstrap: Simplify & make more robust. 2011-09-06 12:11:05 +00:00
build.nix Add an experimental nix-make file 2012-05-21 09:43:01 -04:00
configure.ac Use XZ compression in binary caches 2012-06-29 15:24:52 -04:00
COPYING * Change this to LGPL to keep the government happy. 2006-04-25 16:41:06 +00:00
INSTALL * Autoconf / Automake configuration and building. 2003-04-04 16:14:56 +00:00
Makefile.am fixes to nix-worker systemd service descriptor: - remove commented-out lines - register the file for distribution in Makefile.am 2012-05-31 08:59:36 -04:00
nix.conf.example * Document --cores in the manual. 2010-08-17 07:22:05 +00:00
nix.spec.in On systems with SystemD, install the service descriptor for nix-worker, and enable and start it 2012-05-31 08:59:36 -04:00
README * Install documentation in $(docdir) (i.e. share/doc/nix). 2008-11-19 13:19:09 +00:00
release.nix Add Emacs to the disk image 2012-05-31 09:50:58 -04:00
substitute.mk Use XZ compression in binary caches 2012-06-29 15:24:52 -04:00
version Bump version number 2012-05-12 00:07:08 -04:00

README 

Nix is a purely functional package manager.  For installation and
usage instructions, please read the manual, which can be found in
`docs/manual/manual.html', and additionally at the Nix website at
<http://nixos.org/>.


Acknowledgments

This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for
use in the OpenSSL Toolkit (http://www.OpenSSL.org/).