> -----Original Message----- > From: Etaoin Shrdlu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 10 January 2007 12:15 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Core 2 duo: Building threaded program > versions > > > 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. > > The site says that pbzip2 is compatible with bzip2, so it may > be faster > but I think it does not compress more than its single-threaded cousin.
I was answering in reply to: >... and was the resulting tarball smaller than an uncompressed one? i.e. was mp3.tar.bz2 smaller than mp3.tar. Which it was, but only slightly as MP3s are already compressed as they are so don't compress so well. David Note: These views are my own, advice is provided with no guarantee of success. I do not represent anyone else in any emails I send to this list. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
