Re: bzip2 -- no longer non-us?
And it is true, *sometimes* bzip squeezes an extra 20% ; the initial
results from my experiments, about a year ago, showed that in many cases
bzip had the better compression ratios. However, the same was not true
for super-fat files, those with sizes of 250 Megs or more, and the extra
savings of bzip were too tiny to consider. They were in the
order of less than 1% .
I recommend that before any major decision is taken, we should
verify the compression-ratio measurements.
On Thu, Aug 28, 1997 at 03:52:57PM -0500, Guy Maor wrote:
> Mark Eichin <eichin@cygnus.com> writes:
>
> > we save 2M out of 9.5M
>
> 20% is a lot.
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