From: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 05:02:19 GMT
Subject: Re: Decompression speed: zip vs lzo
Message-ID: <4785A6DB.3080007@vilain.net>
In-Reply-To: <47856E8D.4010006@vilain.net>

Sam Vilain wrote:
> I do really like LZOP as far as compression algorithms go.  It seems a
> lot faster for not a huge loss in ratio.

Coincidentally, I read this today on an algorithm (LZMA - same as 7zip)
which is very slow to compress, high ratio but quick decompression:

  http://use.perl.org/~acme/journal/35330

Which sounds excellent for squeezing those "archive packs" into even
more ridiculously tiny spaces.

Samn.