On 2009-08-10 01:49:29 +0200, Thomas Preud'homme wrote: > Indeed I looked in the man and found this : > > LZMA (Lempel-Ziv-Markov chain-Algorithm) is an improved version of > famous LZ77 compression algorithm. It was improved in way of maximum > increasing of compression ratio, keeping high decompression speed > and low memory requirements for decompressing. > > But they can still claimed to be based on the original Lempel-Ziv algorithm. > It has just been improved.
There's another improved algorithm, called LZMA2, which is used by xz-utils. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
