From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 5 06:44:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA19028 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 06:44:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from frmug.org (frmug-gw.frmug.org [193.56.58.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA19019 for ; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 06:44:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roberto@keltia.freenix.fr) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by frmug.org (8.8.8/frmug-2.2/nospam) with UUCP id PAA08826 for freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 15:44:05 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from roberto@keltia.freenix.fr) Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.9.0.Beta4/keltia-2.14/nospam) id PAA08302; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 15:14:05 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from roberto) Message-ID: <19980405151404.A8288@keltia.freenix.fr> Date: Sun, 5 Apr 1998 15:14:04 +0200 From: Ollivier Robert To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bzip2 - is it worth to take a look at? Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org References: <199804050932.LAA10636@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.90.4i In-Reply-To: <199804050932.LAA10636@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>; from Christoph Kukulies on Sun, Apr 05, 1998 at 11:32:07AM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT ctm#4180 AMD-K6 MMX @ 225 MHz Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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