RE: [GD-General] Compress/Uncompress

[<Per...@ep...>]

In some cases, yes, I know exactly what data is to be transfered (like
comands etc.), and since they are small anyhow, I "only" encrypt =
them...

But when it comes to actual general data being transfered, I can not =
know
more than its data I want to transfered...

And therby I have landed on trying to use a general compress/uncompress
utility

 ** so far zlib seems to be faster than bz2 :-) **

Regards
Per

-----Original Message-----
From: ma...@ch... [mailto:ma...@ch...]
Sent: 23. mars 2004 13:01
To: 'gam...@li...'
Subject: RE: [GD-General] Compress/Uncompress


On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Per L=F8vmo wrote:

> its dynamic data...
>=20
> will check zlib...=20
>=20
> 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=20
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

--=20
Mads Bondo Dydensborg.                               =
ma...@ch...
If you aim the gun at your foot and pull the trigger, it's UNIX's job =
to=20
ensure reliable delivery of the bullet to where you aimed the gun (in
this case, Mr. Foot).=20
                               - Terry Lambert, FreeBSD-Hackers mailing
list.



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