On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 04:19:00PM -0500, William Immendorf wrote: > High compression, to me, is awesome.
Perhaps this might be of interest, it's a compression test that I ran on LZMA a while ago. http://quantum.linuxfromscratch.org/~gdalziel/misc/compression.txt As you can see the LZMA compression time is quite abysmal, and I certainly wouldn't want to use it as my default compression format. Sure as speeds increase the times becomes less noticeable, but I think expecting everyone to use a single format is completely one dimensional. Each format has its particular uses, and LZMA or LZMA based algorithms I would only regard as useful in regards to decompression, and in this test 100MB has been saved for only 1 extra minute decompression. However, I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole for compressing my system backups.
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