From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 15:17:46 GMT
Subject: Re: Compression speed for large files
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0607031702420.29667@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <f36b08ee0607030754k4d10548pfb71dc62c6ee0b21@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Mon, 3 Jul 2006, Yakov Lerner wrote:

> It would be arguable whether, say, 10% better compression is worth 
> x(3-8) slower compression. But 3-4% better compression at the cost of 
> x(3-8) slower compression time as data suggest ? I think this begs for 
> switching the default to Z_DEFAULT_COMPRESSION

The real problem, of course, is that you cannot know before you tried, if 
your data is really well compressible or not.

Ciao,
Dscho