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- Newsgroups: comp.compression
- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!liuida!linda!thenglid
- From: thenglid@linda.lidac.liu.se (Thomas Engstrom)
- Subject: Re: compression of small files
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.084029.7073@linda.lidac.liu.se>
- Keywords: small files 1024 bytes
- Organization: Computer Service Centre, University of Linkoping
- References: <1992Nov11.210509.20715@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 08:40:29 GMT
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- jef0@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (john.e.fetchko) writes:
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- >Does anyone have information on any compression routines
- >that work well on the compression of small files ?
- > ^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^
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- >work well: means a good compression ratio, speed is unimportant.
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- >small files: means 1024 bytes or less.
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- >Or would a file of such a size be too small to effectively compress ?
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- On a machine that allocates disk blocks in 1024 bytes blocks or more,
- there would be waste of time to compress "small files". The same goes
- for files smaller than 512 bytes on a machine with 512 bytes blocks.
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