Re: tar x cpu bound

Jörg Sonnenberger <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On 5/13/25 10:45 PM, matthew green wrote:
> netbsd-8 uses pax-as-tar.  netbsd-9 and newer has bsdtar-as-tar.
> 
> is this the real difference?  how dos "pax -r" work where tar is fast?

One major difference between the two is that pax-as-tar calls external 
gzip/bzip2/xz for compression handling where as bsdtar uses the library 
functions. So for compressed input/output, the accounting will be different.

Joerg
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