On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 07:28 -0800, Kenneth Porter wrote: > --On Wednesday, February 02, 2005 3:45 PM +0100 Florian La Roche > <laroche@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I think staying with gzip is ok as it really is a good middle ground > > between speed and disk compression ratio. bzip2 "feels" noticable slower. > > Is that true on extraction or only on creation? Both. I wonder how much time has been spent by assembler-gods trying to optimize bzip2 for various architectures, though...
