Re: Compression...
Re: Compression...
- Subject: Re: Compression...
- From: John Stiles <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 15:31:35 -0800
On Mar 3, 2004, at 2:47 PM, Wade Tregaskis wrote:
The other suggestion put forward - to use zlib - is okay, but doesn't
offer very good compression. The advantage is that the library is
installed by default on all Mac OS X systems, so you won't have to
worry about that aspect. Personally I'd rather just statically link
against the bzip2 library, but perhaps your preference differs.
If you're writing a real-time application, zlib is much, much faster
than bzip2. Otherwise, I agree, bzip2 is a really good compressor.
Has anyone had any experience with 7zip/LZMA? (
http://www.7-zip.org/)
It looks Windows-centric and I have no first-hand experience with it,
but it's open-source and their published statistics seem very good.
(I wrote drag-and-drop bzip2 and gz compressors for classic Mac OS, of
course just piggybacking on the zlib and the bzip2 libraries.
Sadly I don't have the free time to write drag-and-drop compression
programs in my spare time any more ;) )
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