• sik0fewl@lemmy.ca
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      5 months ago

      I stopped doing that because I found it painfully slow. And it was quicker to gzip and upload than to bzip2 and upload.

      Of course, my hardware wasn’t quite as good back then. I also learned to stop adding ‘v’ flag because the bottleneck was actually stdout! (At least when extracting).

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        5 months ago

        for the last 14 years of my career, I was using stupidly overpowered Oracle exadata systems exclusively, so “slow” meant 3 seconds instead of 1.

        Now that I’m retired, I pretty much never need to compress anything.