Hi Antonio,
Now that I am doing changes to lzip's output, I was wondering how
useful does people find the "bits/byte" value, and if it wouldn't be
better to show the inverse compression ratio (compressed/decompressed)
instead.
I personally haven't found "bits/byte" useful at all; I actually, even
now, don't understand what "bits/byte" actually means. I definitely am
aware that I am not the most knowledgeable about compression or similar
topics, but I can definitely say that the % saved part has been the most
useful and #:# moderately useful. Showing the inverse compression ratio
would be quite favorable to me, and would make Lzip output more tasteful
to me as a whole. This, of course, is my humble opinion. :)
vv52_new.log.lz: 15.329:1, 6.52% ratio, 93.48% saved. ok
Having both the saved and inverse values expressed as percentages seems
like the better of the two options when considering decimal versus
percentage.
Thank you for asking for user opinion on this matter.
Best regards,
Timothy Beryl Grahek
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