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Announcing Faster, Lighter Firefox Downloads for Linux with .tar.xz Packaging! (blog.nightly.mozilla.org)

submitted 3 weeks ago by florencia@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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[–] kbal@fedia.io 26 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The .tar.xz format decompresses more than twice as fast as .tar.bz2, allowing you to get up and running in no time

$ time tar xjf firefox-134.0b3.tar.bz2 

real    0m9.045s
user    0m8.839s
sys     0m0.450s

$ time tar xJf firefox-135.0a1.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.xz                                                

real    0m4.903s
user    0m4.677s
sys     0m0.510s

Nice! Presumably it'd be twice as fast if disk was infinitely fast or something. Unfortunately by testing this I've already used up a hundred times more time than I'll ever save as a result of it.

[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I am curious too. You tested two different versions, one beta and the other current nightly (different content). It's okay for a quick test, but you can actually have a much closer test. Both nightly and only one day difference:

I run this quick test multiple times and on average these are typical results (don't forget to delete the unpacked folder between each runs):

$ time tar xjf firefox-135.0a1.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2

real    0m5,784s
user    0m5,700s
sys     0m0,371s

$ time tar xJf firefox-135.0a1.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.xz

real    0m1,699s
user    0m1,621s
sys     0m0,315s

[–] kbal@fedia.io 1 points 3 weeks ago

On my system that consistently gets results around 10s and 5s so the difference is sort of interesting. Mine's a Ryzen 3600, maybe newer CPU features are of substantial benefit to xz.