On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 02:17:52AM -0700, Bill Broadley wrote: > Er, that makes no sense to me. You aren't going to end up with a smaller > file by encoding a file less efficiently.
I often find that floating-point data doesn't compress much, but that ASCII representations of the same data compresses to a file smaller than the binary one. This is with gzip/bzip2, so we're talking dictionary-based compression -- and it's easy to imagine why this might be true. I've never seen any float-point-oriented compressor like the ones specialized for photos (jpeg, etc.) -- greg _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
