Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 14:47:52 02/11/02
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On February 11, 2002 at 17:45:22, Ratko V Tomic wrote: >> Since bzip2 comes with full source code, it should be pretty >> easy. Just include the decompressor and concatenate the >> compressed data to the binary. > > >The bzip2 offers about 30-50% better compression ratios (on color >graphics) compared to gzip. But the public source implementation >yields very uneven compression times, going from half the speed >of gzip/zlib (at best) to 20 (and up) times slower for the >"wrong" data. To make it work in real time one needs to >pre-filter the data fed the bzip library so that its input >has as few repeated character runs as possible. With such >pre-filtering it works quite well. It might be nice to submit your improvements back to the open source project. I am sure that they would be appreciated world-wide.
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