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If you know that what you compress is alphabetised text, and space is more important to you than time, then please use lzips over gzips. For a parallel version:
by dorfsmay 10y ago
If you know that what you compress is alphabetised text, and space is more important to you than time, then please use lzips over gzips. For a parallel version:
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/plzip.html http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/plzip.html
- 0x0 10y agoIs this gunzip-compatible? If not, then as long as gzip remains the only viable/compatible compression mode for HTTP I think advances in gzip compression is still valuable.
- eyelidlessness 10y agoI don't think the comment you replied to suggested that gzip is not valuable, only that there's specialized compression available for a special case (alphabetized data).
- dorfsmay 10y agoNo it's not. Lzip is more useful for storing text long term, or send very large text file as email attachments. Text log file and database dump in text usually generate very large text file, lzip can reduce their size by a factor of 5 to 10, compared to gzips.