Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 12:43:24 -0800 From: brian@worldcontrol.com To: obrien@NUXI.com, van.woerkom@netcologne.de, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bzip2 - worthy successor to gzip? Message-ID: <19981205124324.A6892@top.worldcontrol.com> In-Reply-To: <19981205020718.A12672@nuxi.com>; from David O'Brien on Sat, Dec 05, 1998 at 02:07:18AM -0800 References: <199812042331.AAA02402@oranje.my.domain> <19981205020718.A12672@nuxi.com>
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> Today, while fetching egcs, I noticed that those folks use bzip2 for > compressing their snapshots: A problem I find with bzip2 is that it becomes unimaginably slow when compressing certain types of data. The slowness is documented. I've not found it a good general purpose compressor. However, I do use bzip2 extensively, while using gzip for those cases where bzip2 falls down. -- Brian Litzinger <brian@litzinger.com> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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