On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 10:32:41AM -0500, Sean Middleditch 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. Then there's LZMA, which is even slower than bzip2 on compression, but faster and less memory-hungry on decompression. It also tends to obtain higher compression ratios and has a multithreaded implementation. -- Rudi
