RE: Compress/Uncompress

In some cases, yes, I know exactly what data is to be transfered (like
comands etc.), and since they are small anyhow, I "only" encrypt them...

But when it comes to actual general data being transfered, I can not know
more than its data I want to transfered...

And therby I have landed on trying to use a general compress/uncompress
utility

 ** so far zlib seems to be faster than bz2 :-) **

Regards
Per

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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 23. mars 2004 13:01
To: '[email protected]'
Subject: RE: [GD-General] Compress/Uncompress


On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Per Løvmo wrote:

> its dynamic data...
> 
> will check zlib... 
> 
> I prefer not to make yet not an other compression utility (did that first,
> but realized soon that supporting it our self was not nescerry whan others
> had invented the "wheel" before:-)

The counter argument, obviously, is that because you know a lot about your 
data, you may be able to design a better algorithm (better compression, 
faster), than what you can obtain by using a general one.

Both gz, and bz2 are quite general.

Mads

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