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From: rog@vitanuova.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] why is image(6) compression so poor?
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 16:50:31 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d44f008d5d7dd69b7b0987c3c9baf223@vitanuova.com> (raw)

i recently observed that when writing a 500x500 all-white RGB24 image
in image(6) format, compressed, the resulting file is 45295 bytes.

gif compression, on the other hand, gives a file of 1689 bytes...

is this a bug, or a limitation of the compression scheme?



             reply	other threads:[~2003-02-19 16:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-19 16:50 rog [this message]
2003-02-19 17:38 ` Russ Cox
2003-02-19 20:21 rog

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