Switch to ZSTD from GZIP for your CUDA package

Graphics / Linux Linux
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@aplattner

The Linux CUDA installation package takes forever to unpack, more than 3 minutes (!) on a high end PC. It’s also huge.

I’ve repacked it using ZSTD:

Size:

  • 3,832,662,389 bytes vs 5,839,691,742 bytes for GZIP i.e. 34% smaller.

Time to unpack:

  • 6.6 seconds vs over 3 minutes for GZIP, i.e. at least 30 times faster.

To compress use zstd -22 --ultra --long -T0.