On 10 January 2007 13:20, Nelson, David (ED, PAR&D) wrote: > -----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.
I was trying to make a point that is was rather pointless to check a compressor on files that were basically incompressible. ;-) 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
