Subject: strange - tar xzf performance
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@chylonia.3miasto.net>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 09/21/2002 20:50:43 
why decompressing splitted .tar.gz archive like this

cat <directory>/*|gzip -d|tar xvf -

is faster than

cat <directory>/*|tar xzvf -

the difference isn't huge but easy to measure - about 10-15% on my system