- Unless this option is given, every time wimlib compresses a data block
- it will decompress it into a temporary buffer and abort() the program
- with an error message if the decompressed data does not exactly match
- the original data. This is to find bugs.
+ Unless this option is given, every time wimlib compresses a data block,
+ it will decompress it into a temporary buffer and abort the program with
+ an error message if the decompressed data does not exactly match the
+ original data. This only makes compression about 10% slower. However,
+ this checking can probably be safely disabled because there are no known
+ bugs in the compression code, and the SHA1 message digest of every
+ extracted file is checked anyway.