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Date:      Sun, 21 Mar 2004 13:14:55 -0500 (EST)
From:      Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net>
To:        Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
Cc:        cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/audio/lame Makefile
Message-ID:  <20040321125347.U93457@blues.jpj.net>
In-Reply-To: <xzpekrml5dy.fsf@dwp.des.no>
References:  <200403201452.i2KEqJ9b039309@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040321042730.V93457@blues.jpj.net> <xzpekrml5dy.fsf@dwp.des.no>

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Dag-Erling [iso-8859-1] Smørgrav wrote:

> Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net> writes:
> > BTW if we were shielded from patent lawsuits we could distribute
> > bzip-compressed packages and save a fair bit of space (see
> > ports/archivers/bzip).
>
> Umm, why?  We already use bzip2, which provides better compression
> than bzip and is unencumbered.

I'm not sure what you mean by "better compression", but as I said, bzip
produces smaller output:

	839680 calgary-corpus-bzip.tar
	849920 calgary-corpus-bzip2.tar
	542720 canterbury-corpus-bzip.tar
	552960 canterbury-corpus-bzip2.tar
	2570240 large-canterbury-corpus-bzip.tar
	2590720 large-canterbury-corpus-bzip2.tar
	3000320 protein-corpus-bzip.tar
	3010560 protein-corpus-bzip2.tar

I agree that bzip2 is better though. :)
-- 
Trevor Johnson



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