[BBLISA] Compression Algorithms

[Daniel Feenberg]

On Tue, 29 Jun 2010, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:

>
> Ah yes.  They're using the same compression algorithm as 7zip, but they're
> in-line-filterable, and behave just like a normal "gzip" command etc.
>
> AKA, there is never any reason to use bzip2.  Using lzma --fast is much
> faster, and better compression than bzip2.  It's superior in every way.

I think that if you are sending files to another person, it is much more 
important that he/she have the decompression software than that the file 
be small. At least that is what I feel when I receive a file. It is part 
of "be conservative in what you send", etc.

Daniel Feenberg
feenberg at nber.org