On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 17:42:55 +0100 steven mestdagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> see: http://tukaani.org/lzma/ > > from DESCR: > > The purpose of LZMA utils is to make the usage of LZMA compression > easy on *NIX based systems like GNU/*/Linux and *BSD. > > The average compression ratio is usually 30% better than > 'gzip --best' and 15% better than 'bzip2 --best'. Some files can > be compressed even over 50% smaller than with gzip. With speed > LZMA cannot compete with gzip in neither compression nor > decompression. With bzip2 LZMA is in par when compressing with > approximately same compression ratio but for smallest file size > the time required can be 5 times the time used by bzip2. Luckily > the same does not apply to decompression speed: even the tightest > LZMA files can be decompressed in time less than a half of the > time that bzip2 would take. This makes LZMA an ideal compression > tool for distributing files in the Internet and on CDs/DVDs > because the files are usually compressed only once but > decompressed many times. > > comments? works fine on i386, I will test it later tonight on alpha. Cheers, Jasper > > > Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm > > -- "Security is decided by quality" -- Theo de Raadt
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