[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>I would strongly discourage switching from bzip2. bzip2 may be "slow", but >>CPUs will only get fast >> >> >er, and meanwhile, the compression algorithm of bzip2 will stay the same. > >If DVD drives do not get faster, CPUs will need to get around 10x >faster for bzip2 to catch up with DVDs; that is, if DVDs do not >get any faster. > > > My understanding is that 16x is the physical limit, before the disks fly apart!
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