From: Michele Andreoli (m.andreoli@tin.it)
Date: Thu May 18 2000 - 14:50:45 CEST
On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 02:48:00AM -0400, Alfie Costa nicely wrote:
>
> So, starting from a P200 with lots of RAM, I rearchived the EXT and VNC addons,
> with the '-1' switch. These were about 30K bigger than the originals, but they
> still fit on the floppy. Made new floppies with these new .bz2 archives, and
> then installed them on the 386 laptop. Sure enough, it worked -- not as fast
> as PKZIP or ARJ, but only minutes to uncompress, and not several hours.
>
> Mu runs on the 386 well enough, but still thrashes a bit too much, but it's not
> that bad. (It's still possible there's some problem with it not seeing all 4
> megs of RAM or not.) Also it may be faster on an ext2 partition rather than in
> umsdos.
MuLinux decompress with bzip2 -ds: the -s option is to reduce memory usage.
>
> Which leads to a general question. New archivers are being written every so
> often, so I wonder if bzip2 is the still best archiver for something like mu
> anymore. An improved archiver should be as small a program as bzip2, produce
> equally good compression or better, use less memory, and work no slower.
:-))
> If
> there is no such program with all these good points, one trade-off that might
> be worth it would be an archiver that takes more CPU cycles to compress small,
> but decompresses quickly. In this way the main archives could be made on a
> newer machine, yet easily decompressed on an old one. The question: what
> GPL'd archivers compare well to bzip2?
>
> Perhaps bzip2 will turn out to be the best one after all. I shall try to look
> on a few archive sites to find out what's new out there.
In my opinion, this is a kind of Shannon theorem: high compression rate,
low size, high CPU usage.
Michele
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