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Re: Documentation

Eon Man <eonicman@erols.com> writes:

> Supposedly bzip is faster and has a compression factor of 14 to 1.

bzip{,2} is *not* faster, it is in fact _significantly_ slower than
gzip and uses a scary amount of memory, especially considering the
machines MiNT can run on (it's ``small'' memory model uses up to
~2.5MB IIRC).  The 14-1 is FUD too.  Try it and see.

-- 
James
~Yawn And Walk North~                                  http://yawn.nocrew.org/