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Sort files by type for better compressibility #30

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isaacs opened this issue May 22, 2019 · 0 comments · Fixed by #33
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Sort files by type for better compressibility #30

isaacs opened this issue May 22, 2019 · 0 comments · Fixed by #33

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isaacs commented May 22, 2019

One weird trick that might be useful: https://twitter.com/isntitvacant/status/1131094910923231232?s=21
isaacs added a commit that referenced this issue Jun 4, 2019
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Sort by type for compression benefits
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Gzip is best optimized when files containing similar contents are nearby
one another in the string of bytes being compressed.

Sort by extname, then basename, then alphabetically, to increase the
likelihood of similar files being found nearby one another in the
resulting tarball archive.

Fix #30
@isaacs isaacs mentioned this issue Jun 4, 2019
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isaacs added a commit that referenced this issue Jun 28, 2019
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Sort by type for compression benefits
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Gzip is best optimized when files containing similar contents are nearby
one another in the string of bytes being compressed.

Sort by extname, then basename, then alphabetically, to increase the
likelihood of similar files being found nearby one another in the
resulting tarball archive.

Fix #30
isaacs added a commit that referenced this issue Jun 29, 2019
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Sort by type for compression benefits
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Gzip is best optimized when files containing similar contents are nearby
one another in the string of bytes being compressed.

Sort by extname, then basename, then alphabetically, to increase the
likelihood of similar files being found nearby one another in the
resulting tarball archive.

Fix #30
@isaacs isaacs mentioned this issue Jun 30, 2019
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