From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: caml-list@sympa.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@sympa.inria.fr Received: from mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by sympa.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6595C7ED1A for ; Sat, 19 May 2012 03:27:26 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AmUEAGX1tk/RVdSukGdsb2JhbABFjTmlLwECgRkIIgEBAQEJCQ0HFAQjghYBAQQSAiwBGx0BAwwGBQs7IgERAQUBHAY1h10BAwueCQkDjCKCcoUAChknDVeIdQEFDIteSRmEAgONUIdGjhU9hAk X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.75,620,1330902000"; d="scan'208";a="144289243" Received: from mail-wi0-f174.google.com ([209.85.212.174]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/RC4-SHA; 19 May 2012 03:27:25 +0200 Received: by wibhr14 with SMTP id hr14so612253wib.9 for ; Fri, 18 May 2012 18:27:25 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=9wpWoN+qxzuqUU+NewBRzijSct2RlSfH82aOqjCgyFU=; b=P8zrG2TVSKM8WRlb3VzlmqdzOSm5vD1V9GqXJtn/qLBj44OtkXrppteosw+wgoRBis HZGg45Z6nhTc8NXLR9G3OdhTmu4ZJOa61WZbQluFLqj8ap2OyF61xTDwCd+uvhIm3F1K b8aG6UGwniH0ycgZeOJuFXhb379gLDAGeV+FS7ZoM1WSk1AiPyUWmalbj5avYlBWO7Oh n8RMwa9YZtiYiB3A6G+/3mbQRmmlUAANoSgbF5C6HDAxbBvU6NVLsC81Wt2PA9AfFQGm w2ghSlTA/xyz7RGaUjuskcXbgRumnHbFv1xBG75+Y3G9JFpR6QMM41tjs7SG6hzAjdFy wzmw== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.180.24.103 with SMTP id t7mr6378086wif.16.1337390845275; Fri, 18 May 2012 18:27:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.223.127.20 with HTTP; Fri, 18 May 2012 18:27:25 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <4FB1B5F3.3080908@riken.jp> <4FB1B60F.3060408@riken.jp> <4FB1BB82.6010900@riken.jp> <20120518221404.GA26540@annexia.org> Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 03:27:25 +0200 Message-ID: From: Adrien To: "Richard W.M. Jones" Cc: Francois Berenger , caml-list , batteries-devel@lists.forge.ocamlcore.org, OCaml Beginners List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Any library for reading/writing compressed files? Also, don't compress Marshal's output, it'll suck. Marshal already does RLE compression IIRC (that might help for situations constrained by memory-bandwidth) and that hinders other compressions. In particular, with xz, it'll really be a waste of time. -- Adrien Nader