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- From: Mat Bettinson <mat@cu-amiga.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: Best Cruncher?
- Date: 13 Mar 96 13:03:53 GMT
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- Salutations Mathew for on the 13 Mar 96, verilly did you scribe;
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- MH> I use SHRI on large files which I access very infrequently (typically
- MH> lha -z'ed archives which are offloaded to floppy). CRM2 is useful for
- MH> files which are to remain online but not be accessed very frequently -
- MH> on some types of data it performs significantly better than SQSH. RAKE
- MH> and FAST are indeed fast, but if you're not going to be accessing some
- MH> files very often, you'd be better packing them with a more effective
- MH> compressor.
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- Errr with SHRI packing at 6k/s and less under a 25Mhz 030 I wouldn't use it
- at all. I'm not that hard on on storage space to waste minutes to gain spare
- bytes. Even SHRI is less compressive than LZX and packs a hell of a lot
- slower. By kingdom for an LZX xpk library.
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