Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:22:48 -0800 From: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org> To: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> Subject: Re: emulate an end-of-media Message-ID: <47C3A228.7090703@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200802252243.m1PMhTeq016201@fire.js.berklix.net> References: <op.t63j2veq724k7f@martin> <20080225154455.4822e72a@bhuda.mired.org> <47C33384.6040701@dial.pipex.com> <200802252243.m1PMhTeq016201@fire.js.berklix.net>
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>Why compress? It's ancient technology and will be vastly outperformed Yes, gzip or bzip2 compress better, but they also: * Are a lot slower. * Use a lot more data memory. * Require a lot more code. > Also some nasty person has a software patent on compress... That was over 20 years ago; the patent expired already. Cheers, Tim Kientzle
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