On 09/17, Scott Patterson wrote:
> I'm just wondering if anyone ever thought of implementing bzip2
> compression support for xmame. I can't imagine it being to hard to unzip
> all the ROMs and recompressing them using bzip2. Also, the verificaton
> routines would have to be updated to the new f
Bzip2 does compress much better on large files (750k and greater), but is
exceedingly slow. It's good for distributing source code, but not for
keeping roms at ready. Personally, I'd rather see gzipped tarballs used
instead of PK-zip because the former compresses better and runs faster
than the
> Bzip2 does compress much better on large files (750k and greater), but is
> exceedingly slow. It's good for distributing source code, but not for
Isnt it only slow for compression though ? My impression is that it
decomresses as fast as anything else, and its decomperession speeed
which is imp
On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 11:37:13PM -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
>
> I don't think there is a Linux/Unix port yet, is there?
I don't think there is. Whoever is looking into adding support for MAME
is/was working on making the code portable. I'll dig around in the
archives and see if I can find out
On Tue, 17 Sep 2002 20:47:21 -0600
Lawrence Gold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> and possibly incorporating support for 7-Zip:
> http://www.7-zip.org/
>
> I understand it has even better compression than tar/bz2, but I haven't
> confirmed this.
I don't think there is a Linux/Unix port yet, is
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Fogle Cpl Shawn B wrote:
> >Incidentally, there's been some talk on the mamedev list about replacing
> >the CRC32 with MD5, and possibly incorporating support for 7-Zip:
> >http://www.7-zip.org/
>
> I've seen what people have said about this and 7-zip won't compress much
>Incidentally, there's been some talk on the mamedev list about replacing
>the CRC32 with MD5, and possibly incorporating support for 7-Zip:
>http://www.7-zip.org/
I've seen what people have said about this and 7-zip won't compress much
better than bzip2. It's <2% difference from what I've see
On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Scott Patterson wrote:
> I'm just wondering if anyone ever thought of implementing bzip2
> compression support for xmame. I can't imagine it being to hard to unzip
> all the ROMs and recompressing them using bzip2. Also, the verificaton
> routines would have to be updated
On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 10:13:38PM -0400, Scott Patterson wrote:
> I'm just wondering if anyone ever thought of implementing bzip2
> compression support for xmame. I can't imagine it being to hard to unzip
> all the ROMs and recompressing them using bzip2. Also, the verificaton
> routines would
