On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 09:28:53PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger 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.
Actually I've found that it depends on which architecture you run bzip2 and gzip on. Taking a sample set of files, I found bzip2 was faster on amd64 than gzip; and gzip was faster on i386 than bzip2. [its been a while... I might have the two reversed] -- -- David ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Q: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. A: Why is top-posting (putting a reply at the top of the message) frowned upon? Let's not play "Jeopardy-style quoting" _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
