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Re: configurable gzip level?



On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 06:53:59PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> A colleague pointed out to me that doing a full build of NetBSD results
> in a lot of time spent doing gzip -9, as much as 8 minutes for all the
> sets on a modern x86 machine.

Doesn't a modern x86 machine benefit stronger from USE_PIGZGZIP=yes than
from gzip -4?

Joerg


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