not sure they are going to change that now *shrug* And it seems GOG has already made up their mind to favour speed over size.
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Most of the time I spend on downloading, smaller download sizes would be always preferable to me.īut we had that discussion already a few times about the linux installers. I don't care that much about slower installation. That being said, personally I absolutely agree with you. These probably would make a better alternative. Though there are other new modern codecs that aim at the same application profile as zlib: fast and moderately well compression. zlib is just faster by a lot, especially if you take decompression and compression speed into account. i would be really surprised if the speed improvements for lzma allow it to come even somewhat close to zlib. Think of all the people with limited bandwidth that would benefit immensely from this - I don't think they'd mind an extra 30 seconds of installation time if they save up 10-20 minutes of download time. We have a lot more processing power under the hood these days, and since lzma2 now is multi-threading capable on decompression as well, I think the better compression ratio it provides would be an offer hard to refuse.
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WinterSnowfall: To share my views on it, yes zlib is faster, but I think lzma is as fast today as zlib/deflate was back when everyone appreciated its speed. To share my views on it, yes zlib is faster, but I think lzma is as fast today as zlib/deflate was back when everyone appreciated its speed.
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Is it "official" that they've switched only to zlib based compression on the new installers that are showing up these days?Įdit: Nevermind, found your original reply on this matter :).
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Immi101: which is why the installer doesn't do that :) I haven't looked into it myself, but I read some people noticed installers at one point which were using zlib compressed files within the installer, which was still being compressed with lzma2 as far as inno setup was concerned (can't remember the thread right now).