On 10 January 2007 09:46, Nelson, David (ED, PAR&D) wrote: > Regarding pbzip2, by the way, I gave it a shot last night. Definately > faster for the type of archive I was compressing (mp3s in a tar archive). > If I remember rightly it was approx 1min30s vs 0min50s. Not quite twice as > fast, but a definate improvement. I plan to do a bit of further > testing/playing if anyone is interested in the results.
... and was the resulting tarball smaller than an uncompressed one? Uwe -- A fast and easy generator of fractals for KDE: http://www.SysEx.com.na/iwy-1.0.tar.bz2 Proof of concept of a TSP solver for KDE: http://www.SysEx.com.na/epat-0.1.tar.bz2 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
