On Jan 30, 2008 10:46 AM, Brian Mathis <brian.mathis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I once knew a guy who bought a really cheap PC with an AMD CPU in it.
> Despite the fact that the power supply was underpowered, and
> everything else on the machine was just as cheap as possible, he
> blamed the AMD chip for all of the problems the PC had. To this day
> he refuses to buy AMD CPUs, "because they don't work right" -- despite
> the fact that millions of people use bzip2^H^H^H^H^H AMD chips every
> day without any problem at all.
>
Heh heh - cute.
I was going to respond in re the AMD issue when I re-read that last part.
I had this problem with several files over a period of about six
months. I suppose it could have been something else (AMD CPU, bad
disk, power spikes, yada, yada), but:
1) The problem never showed up anywhere else, under my P4, same or
different disks, same power conditions as other processes, yada, yada,
yada.
2) I never saw this problem with using zip/unzip/pkzip, which I still use.
3) I also never saw enough of a significant advantage of bzip2 over
zip, but none of my files were all that large, either.
My impression was that the larger (and more binary) a file was, the
better the results with bzip2.
Like I said, YMMV.
mhr
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