RE: [GD-General] Compress/Uncompress

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On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Per Løvmo wrote:

> its dynamic data...
> 
> will check zlib... 
> 
> I prefer not to make yet not an other compression utility (did that first,
> but realized soon that supporting it our self was not nescerry whan others
> had invented the "wheel" before:-)

The counter argument, obviously, is that because you know a lot about your 
data, you may be able to design a better algorithm (better compression, 
faster), than what you can obtain by using a general one.

Both gz, and bz2 are quite general.

Mads

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