From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18318 invoked by alias); 4 Mar 2008 16:35:30 -0000 Received: (qmail 18311 invoked by uid 22791); 4 Mar 2008 16:35:30 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from madara.hpl.hp.com (HELO madara.hpl.hp.com) (192.6.19.124) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:34:56 +0000 Received: from masterns.hpl.hp.com (masterns.hpl.hp.com [15.0.48.4]) by madara.hpl.hp.com (8.14.1/8.14.1/HPL-PA Relay) with ESMTP id m24GYmM9017948 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 2008 08:34:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from RREES.emea.hpqcorp.net (dhcp-173-174.hpl.hp.com [16.25.173.174]) by masterns.hpl.hp.com (8.14.1/8.14.1/HPL-PA Hub) with ESMTP id m24GYldk029635 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 2008 08:34:47 -0800 Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:35:00 -0000 From: Owen Rees To: The Vulgar and Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List Subject: Re: Compressing hippos really fast Message-ID: <457E039A7C181ECDEB97C9BE@RREES.emea.hpqcorp.net> In-Reply-To: <20080304154316.GU18407@calimero.vinschen.de> References: <20080304154316.GU18407@calimero.vinschen.de> X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.6 (Win32) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-HPL-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-HPL-MailScanner-From: owen.rees@hp.com X-IsSubscribed: yes 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/msg00097.txt.bz2 --On 04 March 2008 16:43 +0100 Corinna Vinschen wrote: > does anybody know about a compression tool which is above all capable of > compressing really fast? I have not used it myself, but a passing hippo suggested that lzop would be worth investigating. -- Owen Rees ======================================================== Hewlett-Packard Limited. Registered No: 690597 England Registered Office: Cain Road, Bracknell, Berks RG12 1HN