2005/12/18, Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Gürkan Sengün <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've run some scripts to find out the size of binary pakcages in debian > > and how theycould be made smaller, here's the results: > > > http://www.linuks.mine.nu/sizematters/ > > Afaict from the webpage 7zip (LZMA) is quite a bit slower bzip2. - > Have you perhaps run some benchmarks?
That page has compression and decompression speeds, putting 7zip at about 40% slower than bzip2 and 90% slower than gzip. The decompression speed of 7zip is better than bzip2 but still nothing to write home about. Anyone know a good heuristic for measuring bang for buck for compression algorithms? Have a nice day, Martijn
