On Fri, 20 Nov 2009, George Danchev wrote:
Not that I can help with the surveys, but you may want to compare your
compressor to the practical tests and comparisons found at [1], and eventually
update your debaday article with the results.
[1] (URLs might be wrapped)
http://changelog.complete.org/archives/910-how-to-think-about-compression
http://changelog.complete.org/archives/931-how-to-think-about-compression-
part-2
Thanks for the links.
I'm not arguing users should use lbzip2 or any other bzip2 implementation.
As I commented below the debaday article [0]:
[0]
http://debaday.debian.net/2009/11/12/lbzip2-parallel-bzip2-utility/#comment-158296
I recommend lbzip2 for the case when you're bound to or want to use
bzip2, for whatever reason. I'm not saying you should choose lbzip2 over
other compressor families.
A trivial reason to use bzip2 is to decompress a file downloaded from the
internet. If you have a multi-core CPU and the file was compressed with
standard bzip2, you might want to use lbzip2. Perhaps even automatically.
Cheers,
lacos
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