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From: William Josephson <jkw@eecs.harvard.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] ideas for a new install procedure
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 09:07:14 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011114090714.C89181@honk.eecs.harvard.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011114104532.3064919A3D@mail.cse.psu.edu>; from geoff@collyer.net on Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 02:44:53AM -0800

On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 02:44:53AM -0800, geoff@collyer.net wrote:
> 9pc*.gz are compressed with gzip:

> I haven't been impressed with bzip2.  It consumes a lot more cpu time
> and doesn't seem to yield correspondingly better compression.  The

Depends on what you are compressing.  BWT can make a very substantial
difference on the right kind of input.  It isn't for everything,
though.

 -WJ



  reply	other threads:[~2001-11-14 14:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-11-14 10:44 geoff
2001-11-14 14:07 ` William Josephson [this message]
2001-11-15 10:41 ` Ralph Corderoy
2001-11-15 14:09   ` Sam Hopkins
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-11-14 23:20 Russ Cox
2001-11-14 23:18 Russ Cox
2001-11-14 23:04 anothy
2001-11-14 22:35 Russ Cox
2001-11-14 23:57 ` Dan Cross
2001-11-14 21:34 forsyth
2001-11-14 21:33 forsyth
2001-11-14 22:33 ` Dan Cross
2001-11-14 23:03   ` Jason Gurtz
2001-11-14 23:59     ` Dan Cross
2001-11-15 17:24       ` Jason Gurtz
2001-11-14 20:03 Russ Cox
2001-11-14 21:22 ` Dan Cross
2001-11-14 14:31 Fco.J.Ballesteros
2001-11-14  9:18 Fco.J.Ballesteros
2001-11-14 16:09 ` Jason Gurtz
2001-11-14 19:46 ` Dan Cross

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