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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

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