From: sparhawk AT eunet DOT at (Gerhard Gruber)
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Subject: Re: This is not a problem but...
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 1998 21:26:45 GMT
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From: Gruber Gerhard
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Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 17:17:22 +0100:

>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?

I do. The (theoretical) speed differences are so minimal on my machine that I
rather safe diskspace instead of buying new disks. I just downloaded dlp after
it was mentioned here and I'm absolutely hillarious(is this the word?) about
it. :) I already packed most of my GNU/BIN directory and it saved about 55%.
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   Gerhard

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