On Friday, 10 Sep 2004 17:13, Ionel Catanescu wrote: > Mine is a simple question. > If browsing *.tar.gz's is pretty darn fast (in konqueror & all aps > using kio & kparts) why shouldn't it be so for .tar.bz2's which are > dead slow. The bzip2 algorithm is several times slower than gzip but offers slightly better compression. That's just the way the universe is constructed. Try it on the command-line and you'll see it doesn't really have much to do with KDE. -- Alex Nordstrom http://lx.n3.net/ Please do not CC me in followups; I am subscribed to the kde list. ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
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