Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
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>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
>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



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?47C3A228.7090703>