[tz] [Patch] Make it slightly easier to parse tzdata

[random832 at fastmail.us]

On Sat, Nov 1, 2014, at 16:24, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Brian Inglis wrote:
> > This would require a tradeoff between the compiled sizes of the
> > decompressors on your platform and the compressed data:
> >   94K tz.tar.xz
> 
> We can shrink it even further than that, as follows:

This requires embedding zic, though. I got the impression his post was
about compressing the compiled zoneinfo files (which are, after all,
what is required by the library functions)