On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 03:23:17AM -0700, Nick Hill wrote:
> i'm sorry fer callin' that properietary. realised that
> after i hit send. sorry again. But AFAIK, the gzip
> compression is better than the BSD comp... is there a
> bzip2 compression on PPP? just wondering.... ;-)
Many people still believe that gzip is a "better" compression
algorithm than bzip2 - mainly because the small additional
compression achieved by bzip2 is not worth the much higher
compression time and CPU.
For things like PPP, the extra compression would be useless,
if the time it takes to compress is more than the time it takes
to transmit the uncompressed data.
comp.compession is a great newsgroup to read more about these issues.
-Arun
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