[osmosis-dev] Moving to commons-compression from org.apache.tools.bzip2

[Hakan Tandogan]

> Hello Hakan,
>
> It would be great if you'll perform load testing for bzip2 archives. We're
> using osmosis to process planet osm file and had 3 options to use here:
> 1. internal osmosis bzip2 lib
> 2. bunzipped file
> 3. feed osmosis with decompressed stream ( bzip2 -dc | osmosis --rx - --wx
> -
> | bzip )
>
> also there's pbzip option, but it requires pbzipped archive to process.
>
> Our choise was 3. because it has about 30% advantage for 1st option, but,
> eventually it will not work for windows env.
>
> So, could you check, if new library takes less time to bunzip file, then
> we could advice to others best way to process archives.

As far as I can see, the code is exactly the same, but only with a new
package name.

I'll run a few largish tests over the weekend, but can't promise anything
earlier.


Regards,
Hakan

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