From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: William Josephson To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] ideas for a new install procedure Message-ID: <20011114090714.C89181@honk.eecs.harvard.edu> References: <20011114104532.3064919A3D@mail.cse.psu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011114104532.3064919A3D@mail.cse.psu.edu>; from geoff@collyer.net on Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 02:44:53AM -0800 Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 09:07:14 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 227f5748-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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