Originally posted by chithanh
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So a solution which provides great compression and great decompression speed is likely a prime candidate. On my machines the packages I get from the Arch repos (xz compressed) unpack and install very quickly but then again I have a core i5 and a core i7 so it's hard for me to judge how effective it is overall.
Still, lzma should have proved itself as striking a good balance between compression/decompression speed and compression ratio given that it is used in so many compression tools.
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