On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 04:00:00PM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: > On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 21:28:53 +0100 Joerg Sonnenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > 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. > > Considering we're talking about compression methods to use on dump > output, that would seem to be the definition of a "realistic test > case". Telling us what it "normally" does without defining what input > is considered "normal" doesn't help much.
Source code in my case and various other documents. The test case above certainly was not normal. Joerg _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
