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Subject: Re: KRRNKRR win in 290: a new record

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 17:27:19 10/26/05

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On October 20, 2005 at 10:56:15, Joshua Shriver wrote:

>Interesting, a thought on compression though. Why not use bz2? It's just as easy
>to implement as zip and has better compression.

Bzip2 is horribly slow, both for compressing and decompressing.

The extra compression gained is a small percentage.  Fine for web or ftp sites,
but (I guess) a bad choice for EGTB compression.

7-Zip has lots of algorithms implemented (including bzip2.)  The license is a
bit unclear to me.

This looks very interesting (although license is only GPL or commercial):
http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/lzo/

What is wanted in a case like EGTB is very fast decompression and very good
compression.



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