Re: Whats known as the best text compression methed for regular text files?

From: Jack Lloyd (lloyd_at_jhu.edu)
Date: 05/09/03 

Date: Fri, 09 May 2003 10:46:55 -0400

On Fri, 09 May 2003 10:47:24 -0400, mrpolitics.mrkane wrote:

> n/t
 
Depends on what you mean by best:

 - bzip2 will compress larger text files very well, but it has poor
   latency and uses up a good bit of memory, and lots of CPU.
 - zlib/gzip/zip (same algorithm, different formats): better latency,
   good overall compression (but not as tight as bzip2), still quite
   a bit of memory and CPU.
 - arithmetic coding: really good compression, but patented.
 - various other things, like LZ77-derived compressors, are often faster
   and/or more memory/CPU efficient and/or have better latency.

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