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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