Re: Size matters. Debian binary package stats

[Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@gmail.com>]

2005/12/18, Andreas Metzler <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org>:
> Gürkan Sengün <gurkan@linuks.mine.nu> wrote:
> > I've run some scripts to find out the size of binary pakcages in debian
> > and how theycould be made smaller, here's the results:
>
> > http://www.linuks.mine.nu/sizematters/
>
> Afaict from the webpage 7zip (LZMA) is quite a bit slower bzip2. -
> Have you perhaps run some benchmarks?

That page has compression and decompression speeds, putting 7zip at
about 40% slower than bzip2 and 90% slower than gzip. The
decompression speed of 7zip is better than bzip2 but still nothing to
write home about.

Anyone know a good heuristic for measuring bang for buck for
compression algorithms?

Have a nice day,
Martijn