FS#25882 - Use a parallel compression for packages.
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Opened by Mark (markg85) - Saturday, 03 September 2011, 19:43 GMT
Last edited by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Thursday, 08 September 2011, 18:30 GMT
Opened by Mark (markg85) - Saturday, 03 September 2011, 19:43 GMT
Last edited by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Thursday, 08 September 2011, 18:30 GMT
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Hi,
I've recompiled Qt a few times on a 6 core machine and it kinda pains me to see that the compilation process is using all cores just fine, but making the .xz package is only using 1 core at 100%. Compressing Qt is no easy task and i even bet it right now takes even longer to compress Qt then to build it! Anyway, please consider implementing a parallel xz compression (p7zip can do it) or use for example pbzip2. Or anthing else i don't know. Just my opinion. Kind regards, Mark |
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Closed by Dan McGee (toofishes)
Thursday, 08 September 2011, 18:30 GMT
Reason for closing: Deferred
Additional comments about closing: Waiting for upstream programs to implement multithreading.
Thursday, 08 September 2011, 18:30 GMT
Reason for closing: Deferred
Additional comments about closing: Waiting for upstream programs to implement multithreading.
If you compile packages for you own use you might want to set pkgext to e.g. pkg.tar.gz which is a lot faster. You can even override this within the PKGBUILD.
FS#23968.