Charles Wilson writes: >> Right. But is a bit lame that it just fails. Does it have to use >> this big buffer or would it also work with a smaller buffer, if there's >> no memory chunk big enough? > > From what I understand, it will /not/ be able to perform the kinds of > tasks that -9 specifies. E.g. -9 represents a collection of tuning > parameters, including such things as "and use a gigantic dictionary to > store bit sequences that may repeat, and hence be represented by > shortened codes". If you want a -9-sized dictionary, and you can't > get it...xz shouldn't fall back to a -8-sized one.
Correct. However I had actually used --best (which is an alias for -9), which probably should tune down when -9 won't work, especially when given a file (just for testing of course) that is not even a single kiB and so it wouldn't make any difference at all which dictionary size is chosen. Normally I'd feed it something of several dozens of MiB, though. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ Waldorf MIDI Implementation & additional documentation: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#WaldorfDocs -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
