Thanks Danny, but I am interested in unzipping only. I will zip some chunks on the desktop and unzip them after on the Palm. This is what I wanted to hear, how fast unzipping of a chunk will be, when not using the best compression method.
Dan "Danny Wong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > HI, > > depending on the speed of your Palm. Since the Zlib has support for > native arm code. A 2 meg file will take less than 5 seconds on OS 5.0. > The same file on a 33mhz could take upto 1min. > > It all depends on how you design your app. If you have many records eg: > 1000's then the compression will be slower. zlib will excel for large > records. > > We have created LigthNzip app to compress files in ram and on the card. > It can also create self-extract and unzip Winzip files. Here is our site > > www.toysoft.ca > > regards, > > danny > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dan > > Patrutiu > > Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 7:23 AM > > To: Palm Developer Forum > > Subject: ZLib for Palm > > > > > > - Has anyone used the ZLib shared library for Palm? How fast is it? > > > > - Let's say I have a database of 2 megabytes which can be zipped to 1.5 > > megabytes. When I'll decompress and read the data, how fast will this > > operation be, compared to reading uncompressed data? Is it worth > > to use ZLib > > on this kind of database? I don't want to use the maximum compression > > method, but only a decent one. > > > > Thanks in advance, > > Dan > > > > > > > > -- > > For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to > > unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/ > > > > > > > -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
