Re: [E-devel] Impressive eet compression.

[David S. <on...@gm...>]

On Tue, 31 Jul 2012 09:31:10 -0300 Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
<bar...@pr...> wrote:

> On Tuesday, July 31, 2012, David Seikel wrote:
> 
> >
> > $ eet -t gggData.eet
> > *** sections stats ***
> > gggData of size 73364 is compressed.
> > *** dictionary ***
> > 35 strings inside the dictionary.
> > *** global ***
> > 1 sections
> > - 1 of them are compressed (100.00%) expanding in 73364 bytes.
> > - 0 of them are directly mappable in memory (0.00%) representing 0
> >   bytes.
> >
> > 100.00% compression.  I am impressed.  I wonder if I can store the
> > entire OS in an eet, then stash that in the BIOS NVRAM?  Who needs
> > hard drives.
> 
> 
> Too lazy to read? 1 section of 1 total was compressed. That's 100% in
> my book :-)

Well, it says "... compressed (100.00%) ..." which could be read as
"it's compressed 100% of original size".  In fact, I'd say it's more
likely to be read that way.  Now if it said "... compressed (100% of
total file size) ..." then your way makes more sense.

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