Subj : Re: Storing 20 million randomly accessible documents in compressed form
To   : comp.programming
From : M.Barren
Date : Wed Sep 07 2005 06:21 pm

> 1.8 to 1? I think you are thinking of the ratio for random ASCII display
> characters. Typical compressed books etc. have a huge ratio of about 30:1

I must agree with Michael. Even my xml data that contain a huge amount
of redundant xml tags could only be compressed to a ratio of almost
10:1 (1.7 GB -> 183 MB) even using bzip.

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