HI, depending on the speed of your Palm. Since the Zlib has support for native arm code. A 2 meg file will take less than 5 seconds on OS 5.0. The same file on a 33mhz could take upto 1min.
It all depends on how you design your app. If you have many records eg: 1000's then the compression will be slower. zlib will excel for large records. We have created LigthNzip app to compress files in ram and on the card. It can also create self-extract and unzip Winzip files. Here is our site www.toysoft.ca regards, danny > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dan > Patrutiu > Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 7:23 AM > To: Palm Developer Forum > Subject: ZLib for Palm > > > - Has anyone used the ZLib shared library for Palm? How fast is it? > > - Let's say I have a database of 2 megabytes which can be zipped to 1.5 > megabytes. When I'll decompress and read the data, how fast will this > operation be, compared to reading uncompressed data? Is it worth > to use ZLib > on this kind of database? I don't want to use the maximum compression > method, but only a decent one. > > Thanks in advance, > Dan > > > > -- > For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to > unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/ > > -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
