On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 12:34:52PM -0700, Michael Torrie wrote: > Besides the quality of compression, it's the speed of compression where > gzip is significantly faster than bzip2. In my experience, though, > bunzipping a file is about the same as gunzipping a file.
Right. I was not thinking of the general case as I ought. bzip2 on my speedy box with 1.5 Gb of DDR is negligibly slower than gzip, and on large plain text files (300 Mb and bigger) bzip2 saves me many megabytes of space over the same gzip command, not that I need to save space, but it does. It is therefore good to have both algorithms. Use gzip for general purpose zipping and bzip2 for archival or space constrained purposes, or if, like me, your resources are not prohibitive. Justin _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
