Re: [Devel] FreeType gzip support completed

[Mike A. Harris]

On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, Vadim Plessky wrote:

>|      - the file <freetype/ftgzip.h> (or FT_GZIP_H) provides a new API,
>|        named "FT_Stream_OpenGzip" that can be used to "embed" an
>|        existing compressed gzip stream.
>|
>|        it can be called manually by the application when needed.
>|        please refer to the documentation comment in the public
>|        header.
>
>Great!  Do you plan to add support for bzip2, too?
>bzip2 has much better compression
>Compare typical .tar.gz and .tar.bz2, I have sen differences in about 1MB (on 
>15MB file) when archieving my mail folder.

I think the savings between bzip2 compared to gzip for this 
particular purpose gets a bit lost due to the time/speed overhead 
bzip2 requires.  If bzip2 support gets added, please make it a 
build time option.




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