On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 01:13:56AM +0100, Sam Vilain wrote: > On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 21:11, Tom Hukins wrote; > > > Also, I suspect the case for bzip2 becomes stronger in the future. > > Assume Moore's Law continues to hold for CPU speed increase. Disk > > and > > This argument is irrelevant in general, because the size of files to > be compressed in general also increases with Moore's law.
I don't understand how this changes anything. If CPU increases outstrip bandwidth increases, CPU intensive compression/decompression becomes more appropriate compared to bandwidth intensive compression. It's already been mentioned that bzip2 performs better on large files than on small files, so if anything I would expect larger file sizes to favour bzip2. Tom
