Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 17:06:47 02/01/01
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On February 01, 2001 at 19:57:22, Pete Galati wrote: >On February 01, 2001 at 19:50:52, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>On February 01, 2001 at 19:00:13, Dann Corbit wrote: >> >>>On February 01, 2001 at 18:21:36, Pete Galati wrote: >>>[snip] >>> >>>>bzip? This is different that gzip and pkzip? >>>Yes. >>> >>>>Can this really compress smaller >>>>than gzip on maximum? >>>Yes. >> >>Here is the size after gzip -9 for all the files: >>02/01/2001 04:26p 138,196,267 junkbase.sg.gz >>02/01/2001 04:27p 54,938,748 junkbase.si.gz >>02/01/2001 04:27p 4,519,463 junkbase.sn.gz >> 3 File(s) 197,654,478 bytes >> >>And here is the bzip file size: >>01/30/2001 03:31p 131,824,621 junkbase.sg.bz >>01/30/2001 03:36p 50,660,956 junkbase.si.bz >>01/30/2001 03:31p 3,734,485 junkbase.sn.bz >> 3 File(s) 186,220,062 bytes >> >>And Here is the bzip2 file size: >>02/01/2001 02:39p 131,274,889 junkbase.sg.bz2 >>02/01/2001 02:41p 50,939,361 junkbase.si.bz2 >>02/01/2001 02:42p 3,736,896 junkbase.sn.bz2 >> 4 File(s) 186,114,986 bytes >>Hmm... only saved 100K from bzip to bzip2, not one meg like I thought before. >>But it is 10 megs smaller than gzip, which might save someone a few nickels if >>they have to download over the phone line (and they are nutso enough to download >>behemoth files anyway). > >That's a big savings in download time. I was just over at cygnus trying to >download bzip but there was too many people on the server, so I'll have to get >back to it a bit later. Thought I had bookmarked the thing but I didn't, but it >only took a few seconds to find it the first time, here it is >http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/index.html I put bzip/bzip2 on my ftp site in the SCID directories so that people who did not have it would not have to hunt for it. Also, they are built with the Intel compiler and have much better performance than the "official" builds.
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