Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 00:31:23 +0100 (CET) From: Marc van Woerkom <marc@netcologne.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: bzip2 - worthy successor to gzip? Message-ID: <199812042331.AAA02402@oranje.my.domain>
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Today, while fetching egcs, I noticed that those folks use bzip2 for
compressing their snapshots:
-rw-r--r-- 1 220 1002 8917442 Dec 2 19:33 egcs-1.1.1.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 220 1002 11604853 Dec 2 19:27 egcs-1.1.1.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 220 1002 6222128 Dec 2 19:34 egcs-core-1.1.1.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 220 1002 8177883 Dec 2 19:16 egcs-core-1.1.1.tar.gz
These files are only about 70% of their gzip counterparts - quite impressive.
Julian Seward (jseward@acm.org), the author of this program claims extensive
tests on his web page
http://www.muraroa.demon.co.uk
Comments?
Regards,
Marc
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