[Scons-dev] scons-local .zip 2015

[anatoly techtonik]

On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 11:05 PM, William Blevins <wblevins001 at gmail.com> wrote:
> That link also contains a "tar.gz" extension file which is 433 kB.

tar.gz achieves better compression, because the index of data chunks
is build for the single lump of files glued together. In .zip archive
index is build independently for each file, so even if you have dozen
identical files, they all will be compressed separately. But thanks to
that, .zip allows a random access to archived files, while tar.gz does not.