[debian-knoppix] Re: bzip2?

[Klaus Knopper <knopper@linuxtag.org>]

On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 06:02:08PM +0200, Lionello Lunesu wrote:
> Klaus,
> 
> cloop uses zlib right?

Yes.

> If it's true that bzip2 is better(+faster?), would that improve cloop?

No. Bzip compresses about 2% better, but is at least 4 times slower in
decompression.

Yes, we benchmarked it. ;-)

Regards
-Klaus Knopper
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