Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 17:03:14 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com> To: brian@worldcontrol.com Cc: obrien@NUXI.com, van.woerkom@netcologne.de, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bzip2 - worthy successor to gzip? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812051700030.7329-100000@bright.fx.genx.net> In-Reply-To: <19981205124324.A6892@top.worldcontrol.com>
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You should also consider what the author has to say about the algorithm he uses. Supposedly he in not sure if his algorithm is copyrighted technology becuase of the mix of algorithms he uses. Maybe he revised his statement about it, but the closeness to certain other patened (sp?) algorithms might cause trouble later on. Alfred Perlstein - Programmer, HotJobs Inc. - www.hotjobs.com -- There are operating systems, and then there's FreeBSD. -- http://www.freebsd.org/ 3.0-current On Sat, 5 Dec 1998 brian@worldcontrol.com wrote: > > Today, while fetching egcs, I noticed that those folks use bzip2 for > > compressing their snapshots: > > A problem I find with bzip2 is that it becomes unimaginably slow when > compressing certain types of data. The slowness is documented. > > I've not found it a good general purpose compressor. However, I > do use bzip2 extensively, while using gzip for those cases where > bzip2 falls down. > > -- > Brian Litzinger <brian@litzinger.com> > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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