On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 at 03:41:25PM +0000, Isaac Close wrote:
> hello all,
>
> I'm (trying) to find the 'best' compression software/algorithm
> about. Best as-in best compression ratio most, cpu time and
> memory footprint are not a problem.
> I'm already well aware of 7zip, bzip2, rzip and ofcourse gzip,
> but looking on google is not putting me beyond those.
It denpends on the data but gzip is okay, bzip2 is usually better
and lzma (of 7zip fame) tends to be best. lzma does have a heavy
CPU penalty but as you don't care then you are okay.
Sometime a specialised compression engine will work better as it
has a better "dictionary".
Given cheap high capacity hard disks why do you need to squeeze
the last few bytes out of your files? If you don't mind me asking?
--
Adam Trickett
Overton, HANTS, UK
Good advice is always certain to be ignored,
but that's no reason not to give it
-- Agatha Christie
