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- Short: Bzip2 xpk compression library (68k,WarpOS,MorphOS) V1.5
- Author: oliver@futaura.co.uk (Oliver Roberts)
- Uploader: oliver@futaura.co.uk (Oliver Roberts)
- Version: 1.5
- Type: util/pack
- Requires: OS 3.0+,68020+,xpkmaster.library
-
- Changes since previous release:
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- - Compression speed: 5% faster for WarpOS and 20-30% faster for 68k
- - Decompression speed: 15% faster for WarpOS and 3-5% faster for 68k
- - Added a native MorphOS version of the library
- - Recoded much of the library startup code
- - Modified internal structure of the WarpOS version, to totally safeguard
- against cache conflicts (may have caused rare random crashes)
-
-
- DESCRIPTION
-
- Julian Sadler's bzip2 compresses files using the Burrows-Wheeler block
- sorting text compression algorithm, and Huffman coding. Compression is
- generally considerably better than that achieved by more conventional
- LZ77/LZ78-based compressors, and approaches the performance of the PPM
- family of statistical compressors.
-
- xpkBZP2.library uses the same compression algorithm as bzip2, and allows
- you to compress files with the same high crunch factor as bzip2, but under
- the XPK interface.
-
- In summary, xpkBZP2.library offers generally a very high compression ratio,
- typically around 70-90%. Of course, there's no such thing as a free lunch,
- and the downside is that the compression routines require lots of memory,
- although there are modes available which use less memory, at the expense of
- compression efficiency.
-