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Re: binutils-2.11.2.tar.bz2
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- Subject: Re: binutils-2.11.2.tar.bz2
- From: Paolo Carlini <pcarlini at unitus dot it>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 13:03:26 +0200
- CC: pekasz at lodz dot ptkardio dot pl, aoliva at redhat dot com
Hi,
>> How about use gzip as more known and accetable standard?
>
>gzip is fine, but the question was about a .tar.bz2 file, so gzip
>won't do.
perhaps Piotr was alluding to the fact that all the mirror hosting
2.11.2 right now, that is all of
http://sources.redhat.com/mirrors.html
have *only* the bz2 version...
However, I would argue that bzip2, also available from the same mirrors
(source and binaries), is much more efficient in compressing source
code, and not much slower than LZ77-based algorithms during the
decompression phase. For an introduction to Burrows-Wheeler techniques
see:
http://dogma.net/markn/articles/bwt/bwt.htm
Cheers,
Paolo.