On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 07:28 -0800, Kenneth Porter wrote:
--On Wednesday, February 02, 2005 3:45 PM +0100 Florian La Roche
<laroche(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> I think staying with gzip is ok as it really is a good middle ground
> between speed and disk compression ratio. bzip2 "feels" noticable slower.
Is that true on extraction or only on creation?
Both.
I wonder how much time has been spent by assembler-gods trying to
optimize bzip2 for various architectures, though...