From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17810 invoked by alias); 4 Mar 2008 16:33:29 -0000 Received: (qmail 17803 invoked by uid 22791); 4 Mar 2008 16:33:28 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.artimi.com (HELO mail.artimi.com) (194.72.81.2) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:33:01 +0000 Received: from mail.artimi.com ([192.168.1.3]) by mail.artimi.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Tue, 4 Mar 2008 16:32:58 +0000 Received: from ALBATROSS ([192.168.8.39]) by mail.artimi.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Tue, 4 Mar 2008 16:32:58 +0000 From: "Dave Korn" To: "'argh quotefix keeps picking the wrong name'" References: <20080304154316.GU18407@calimero.vinschen.de> Subject: RE: Compressing hippos really fast Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:33:00 -0000 Message-ID: <001001c87e15$6ae848c0$2708a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <20080304154316.GU18407@calimero.vinschen.de> Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Vulgar and Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List X-SW-Source: 2008-q1/txt/msg00096.txt.bz2 On 04 March 2008 15:43, oh.no.my@quotefix.is.borken wrote: > does anybody know about a compression tool which is above all capable of > compressing really fast? The compression ratio is only a mild concern, > it's rather more important that the tool is not acting as bottleneck > when compressing files which are badly compressable. Unfortunately > the usual compression tools are rather interested in a good compression > than in a good speed when streaming lots of data. Hmm, I came across something much like this lately while researching compression: take a look at LZO. It focusses more on uncompression speed but is also supposed to be fairly fast for compression. http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/lzo/ It should be possible to use lzop as an inline filter compressor, more or less as a direct drop-in replacement for gzip http://www.lzop.org/ cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today....