Re: [cx-freeze-users] cx_Freeze doesn't use compression for zipfiles

[Anthony T. <ant...@gm...>]

So, does this mean you would prefer the default to be uncompressed or
that you would be using the --no-compress option? Or something else?

On 6/15/05, Roger Binns <ro...@ro...> wrote:
> > I'll try to get some real numbers this evening to see what
> > difference it makes.
>=20
> Here they are, based on the bytecode shipped with BitPim:
>=20
> 9863155  uncomp.zip        Uncompressed in a zip
> 2053295  comp.zip          zip -9
> 2021580  comp.zip.bz2      bz2 of the zip -9
> 2009924  comp.zip.gz       gzip -9 of the zip -9
> 1789575  uncomp.zip.gz     gzip -9 of the uncompressed
> 1353763  uncomp.zip.bz2    bz2 of the uncompressed
>=20
> There is about 10% improvement in not compressing the zip before
> compressing overall with gzip.  It is closer to 40% if the overall
> container is compressed with bzip2.  I believe rpms use the latter
> so it would make a non-trivial difference.
>=20
> Roger
>=20
>=20
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