Re: lzma Vs lzip ?
On 2009-08-10 01:49:29 +0200, Thomas Preud'homme wrote:
> Indeed I looked in the man and found this :
>
> LZMA (Lempel-Ziv-Markov chain-Algorithm) is an improved version of
> famous LZ77 compression algorithm. It was improved in way of maximum
> increasing of compression ratio, keeping high decompression speed
> and low memory requirements for decompressing.
>
> But they can still claimed to be based on the original Lempel-Ziv algorithm.
> It has just been improved.
There's another improved algorithm, called LZMA2, which is used by
xz-utils.
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