mikshaw
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Posted: July 18 2007,17:48 |
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And again, the question of the amount of compression used in these *.gz files has not been addressed. If it wasn't originally compressed to maximum (most aren't), the comparison is an unfair one. It's possible that compressing with gzip at the maximum level, as ^thehatsrule^ demonstrated, might show the size decrease to be consistently insignificant. Or the results might be more encouraging than that. I stand by my original (and repeated) statement that if it doesn't make it noticeably smaller (which has yet to be shown), or if it uses noticeably more resources (a p4 won't say much about how it works on 486), there is very little point in it.
I can understand the desire for better compression techniques, or course, but over the last several years there has been little acceptible improvement. Either the technique is too slow, or the result isn't worth replacing the de facto standard.
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