Gzip better than Bz2 ? Normal?
Mike McCarty
mike.mccarty at sbcglobal.net
Mon Jan 2 18:58:42 UTC 2006
Mike McCarty wrote:
> Franck Y wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>> I ve got a strange behavior with bz2 and gzip.
>> When i compress a small folder around 225 Mo the compression goes to
>> 49 Mo for gzip
>> 46 mo for bzip2
>>
>> When i compress a bigger folder around 5 Go the compression goes to
>> 2.6 Go for gzip
>> 3.1 mo for bzip2
>
>
> [snip]
>
> Not surprising at all. It is a theorem that, for any compression
> algorithm which makes the compressed version of some file
Let me ammend that...
"... for any *lossless* compression algorithm..."
Mike
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