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I'm comparing compression functions, and I'm surprised by what I'm seing. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but everything I've tested has been more compressed by gzip than bzip2!
I was under the impression that bzip2 was better than gzip. Can someone give an example of data that would demonstrate this? Thanks.
Additionally, there's also "pbzip2" (the "p" is for "parallel") which takes advantage of multiple processors (by using "pthreads") for additional performance gains: http://www.compression.ca/pbzip2/
– Randolf Richardson – 2011-05-10T06:40:32.970