Tag: compression
How To Think About Compression, Part 2
February 17th, 2009, 11 Comments
Yesterday, I posted part 1 of how to think about compression. If you haven’t read it already, take a look now, so this post makes sense. Introduction In the part 1 test, I compressed a 6GB tar file with various tools. This is a good test if you are writing an entire tar file to [...]
How To Think About Compression
February 16th, 2009, 49 Comments
… and the case against bzip2 Compression is with us all the time. I want to talk about general-purpose lossless compression here. There is a lot of agonizing over compression ratios: the size of output for various sizes of input. For some situations, this is of course the single most important factor. For instance, if [...]
