William Harrington wrote:
>
> On Feb 23, 2013, at 7:38 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>
>> You are not quantifying the differences in compression.  AFAIK, the
>> script works now and it appears your changes are an optimization.
>
>   xz -l LFS-Experimental-x86_64-Graphite.tar.xz
> Strms  Blocks   Compressed Uncompressed  Ratio  Check   Filename
>      1       1     96.9 MiB    659.4 MiB  0.147  CRC64
> LFS-Experimental-x86_64-Graphite.tar.xz

About 13 years ago I did some work with audio (lossy) compression. 
Along the way, I looked at text compression too.  I would expect about 
6-1 for lossless ascii compression.  It looks like you got slightly 
better than that.

   -- Bruce
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