On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 07:44:48PM +0100, Martin Laabs wrote: > I also made a comparison between gzip and bzip2 regarding > the compression ratio on a dump of my home directory (3.2GB) > bzip2 took about 74min to compress, gzip only 11minutes. And > in terms of compression ratio bzip2 was only 3% better than > gzip.
That's not a realistic test case. bzip2 normally takes trice the time and compresses 10% better. I can't comment on compress. Joerg _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
