Randy McMurchy wrote: > Hi all, > > Just a topic which really doesn't need discussion on this list, however, > one item is worth mention (question to Bruce). > > I just updated Anduin with the new CrackLib files. I find it interesting > how much better (and, of course, faster) Gzip compresses text files than > Bzip. > > The CrackLib word list compressed with Gzip is 4.4 MB, compressed with > Bzip it is 5.6 MB. > > I'm leaving the larger, Bzipped version on Anduin for consistency sake, > though it seems wrong.
This is new to me. I always knew gzip was faster, but I always thought bzip2 did better compression. For now, I feel that consistency is better han 1.2MB on a single file. However, perhaps we should keep an eye on this issue. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
