You mean 7zip?

On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 01:13:52PM -0400, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> On 8/12/06, Ken Snider <ksnider at flarn.com> wrote:
> >Consider my vote for this as well. :) The reality is, with insert speed the
> >way it is, inserting as little data as possible should be a goal, and while
> >bzip2's compression method is without question slower than gzip, I'm sure
> >we'll be blocked by insert velocity long before the compression rate 
> >becomes
> >an issue.
> 
> Please no bzip2.
> The problem with bzip2 is that it is every bit as slow to compress as
> it is to decompress.
> 
> If better compression is required please look at getting someone to do
> a java port of LZMA.   LZMA is in generally somewhat faster than bzip2
> for compression (and gets better compression rations on most content,
> to much better compression on some content) and is MUCH faster than
> bzip2 for decompression.
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