-----Original Message----- From: Uwe Thiem [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 January 2007 08:40 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Core 2 duo: Building threaded program versions > > >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
By about 1% .... agreed MP3s are a poor example but it was late last night and I didn't have time to mess around with it much. Going to try with a mix of documents (word processed documents, text, pictures, some video) to see how it performs then. David Disclaimer: I represent no-one else in my emails to this list. Use any advice given at your own risk. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
