On Tuesday 21 July 2009, Bob Woodside wrote: >compression: about 2.5 times slower than zip >decompression: about the same as unzip
That could explain things as I used both -1 (fast compression) for Infozip & for bzip2 which gave me a 4 to 1 difference which is very notable. Also bzip2 (normal) takes double the time of its fast option. Times were Elapsed Time taken during quiet times on our system. Thanks for the information, Vikesh Please Note: This email and its contents are subject to our email legal notice which can be viewed at http://www.sars.gov.za/Email_Disclaimer.pdf ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
