From: sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Stephen Tweedie) Subject: Re: SLS, why don't you use gzip for compression ? Date: 15 Jan 1993 14:26:13 GMT
In article <1993Jan14.064429.5047@sol.UVic.CA>, pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald) writes:
> In article <C0tIvq.LFL@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jliddle@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Jean Liddle) writes:
>>In article <C0r8Kz.CDn@ibg1.ibg.sub.org> ado@ibg1.ibg.sub.org (Christoph Adomeit) writes:
>>>Hi SLS-Makers,
>>>
>>>why don't you use gzip for compression of your Disks ?
>>>As long as gzip is on the distribution I don't see any compatibility-
>>>problems.
>>
>>Forgive him father, for he knows not what he does ...
> Actually, I have looked at gzip, and the compression claim *seems*
> to be bourne out at 1/3 better than compress. And if GNU is behind
> it, there is some weight to it.
Well, I have installed gzip-0.7 (dated Jan 5), and it includes an
assembler file for the core compression routines (for i386-compatibles
only). It really does seem to be a lot faster than the 0.5 version.
I'm now using it for most of my compression, and haven't had any
trouble (there was at least one minor bug I stumbled across in v0.5).
Just my tuppence-worth...
Cheers,
Steve T.