Subj : Re: Storing 20 million randomly accessible documents in compressed form
To   : comp.programming
From : Jon Harrop
Date : Tue Sep 06 2005 05:12 am

M.Barren@gmail.com wrote:
> I will give the BIG zip file a try to see if it compares anywhere near
> 200 MB (because I will have another 30 to 40 Million documents on the
> way). I might be expecting magic from compression technologies but I
> just want to make sure I will save as much space as I can since there's
> a little bit of competition to it as well.

If you're compressing small files then zip/gzip is fine. For larger files
(larger than bzip's block size), bzip is likely to be substantially better.

-- 
Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy
http://www.ffconsultancy.com

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