Date: Sun, 5 Apr 1998 15:14:04 +0200 From: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bzip2 - is it worth to take a look at? Message-ID: <19980405151404.A8288@keltia.freenix.fr> In-Reply-To: <199804050932.LAA10636@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>; from Christoph Kukulies on Sun, Apr 05, 1998 at 11:32:07AM %2B0200 References: <199804050932.LAA10636@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
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According to Christoph Kukulies: > bzip2 compresses about 20 % better than gzip. But take around 7 MB in memory for compression and decompression. Besides it is 5 times as slow... The memory consumption may be reduced but it will take at least 5 MB. I use it only when I'm really short of space. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #0: Mon Mar 30 22:21:31 CEST 1998 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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