Re: bzip2 is absolutly Amazing!

[Benjamin Pharr <benpharr@freedom2000net.com>]

I agree with you for the most part, but you should be aware this works the 
other way in certain situations. I recently compressed a text file full of 
numbers with both bzip2 and gzip, and the bzip2 file was ~350MB and the 
gzip file was ~120MB. I surprised me, too, but in some cases gzip works 
much better.

Ben Pharr


At 09:43 PM 12/6/01 +0100, you wrote:
> Hi there!
>
> I have just found out that bzip2 is _really_ _great_ for large files.
> I have tar'ed a whole debian-installation (1.2 gigs).
> This tar, compressed with gzip, has a size of ~390MB.
> The same tar, compressed with bzip2 has a size of 110MB!!!
>
> So for every body out there: If you have a large file to compress
> (and enogh time resp. CPU-power) then check out bzip2.
> It is much slower than gzip, but (at leas for sufficient large files)
> much better.
>
> So long
>
> Andreas Maresch