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• 2011-06-23

  Create 1000 directories each with 1000 empty files

  Then compress them with various methods:

  • zip: 120 MB
  • tar.bz2: 2 MB
  • 7z: 400 KB
  • git bundle: 5 KB

  It’s impressive that the results of this pathological case span four orders of magnitude.