Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/07/01/22:15:35
From: | Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Newsgroups: | comp.os.msdos.djgpp
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Subject: | Re: This is not a problem but...
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Date: | Wed, 01 Jul 1998 18:46:26 -0700
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Organization: | Alcyone Systems
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Message-ID: | <359AE672.2E8F36F@alcyone.com>
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References: | <001b01bda51b$082b5700$624d08c3 AT arthur>
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To: | djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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DJ-Gateway: | from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp
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Arthur wrote:
> True, but I was thinking strictly theoretically. In practice
> (especially
> with my UDMA Hard Disc with onboard cache) loading the compressed file
> would
> be slower. But think: how much of a speed overhead does compression
> have? On
> my ST, uncompressing a 2MB zipped file takes several minutes. On a
> DX2/66 it
> takes a matter of seconds. Why don't more people use data compression?
There's a really simple answer to that question: Because disk space is
really, really cheap.
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Erik Max Francis, &tSftDotIotE / mailto:max AT alcyone DOT com
Alcyone Systems / http://www.alcyone.com/max/
San Jose, California, United States / icbm:+37.20.07/-121.53.38
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