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- From: Pontus Berg <Pontus.Berg@p71.anet.canit.se>
- Date: Tue, 30 Jan 96 00:26:59 +0100
- Subject: Packers / Expert Cartridge...
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- In a message of 29 Jan 96 Pontus Berg wrote to All:
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- PB> No one pair of packer+cruncher can be the very best as it depends on
- PB> how well a combination treats a certain datahunk. Not one combination
- PB> is always the best. I never use SuperZipper but rather EBC or a more
- PB> spartan packer. A packer shall not take away work that the cruncher
- PB> does better so I use very simple packers. The more advanced produce
- PB> better result after packing but who cares as this rarley show after
- PB> crunching it to. I have two packers (Illusion packer and ... was it
- PB> "Ectacy packer" by Rockstar... Well the both produce outstanding
- PB> results after packing only but get beaten after crunching if I packed
- PB> with f.ex. only EBC!
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- This was all very confusing if you ask me (who wrote it! ;-)
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- I mean:
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- IlsPacker + DSQ4
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- and
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- EXTpacker+DSQ4
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- is beaten by the combination
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- EBC+DSQ4
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- ... This even if the EBC packed file is 3-5 blocks longer than the two others
- at the start of crunching! Hope this cleared out what I was *trying* to say ;-)
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- /Pontus Berg, Bacchus@FairLight.COM
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- ... Drop 57005, lamer!
- (Pontus Berg)
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