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| From: | Mike Miller |
| Subject: | Re: Running C++ program from octave ?? |
| Date: | Fri, 22 Jul 2005 13:04:33 -0500 (CDT) |
On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, John W. Eaton wrote:
On 22-Jul-2005, Robert A. Macy wrote: | But now, what is .bz2? What do I do with that? Another form of data compression which typically outperforms gzip. See www.gzip.org and www.bzip.org for details.
It looks like bzip achieves a better compression ratio (smaller files) than gzip, but it takes longer to compress/uncompress using bzip than using gzip. It's a tradeoff between size and speed.
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