> FWIW bzip2 does a significantly better job of compressing save > files than zip, but at the expense of using several times as many > CPU cycles. > > I'm doing a QA run on exponent 67108763 keeping interim files at > million iteration intervals, so, by the time I finish, I will have 67 save > files. The raw size is 14MB per file, but bzip2 reduces them to > around 9MB. Whether we should be unduly worried about a job > which takes ~ 1 year to run producing ~ 1GB of data, in these > days when it's hard to buy new HDDs smaller than 20GB, is a > matter of opinion.
In my tests, I was able to get about 50% compression using RAR, but it does take more cycles. I suppose if anyone is really that concerned about saving disk space, they could compress it themselves... like I said, I doubted George would want to implement something like that anyway. Aaron _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
