On Aug 14, 2009, at 7:15 AM, Alex Lam S.L. wrote:
Thanks for the informative analysis!
Just wondering - are there better candidates out there than even LZO
for this purpose?
tamp is perhaps another interesting candidate. But Tim is in a better
position to say where it is heading.
http://blogs.sun.com/timc/entry/tamp_a_lightweight_multi_threaded
Personally, I don't think any of the current LZ candidates will be worth
the effort to integrate. To see why, I put some data in my blog and show
why gzip was worth the effort.
http://richardelling.blogspot.com/2009/08/justifying-new-compression-algorithms.html
-- richard
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