Adrian Rojak looks at Data Compression
Posted by Mark Nelson on 26th December 2005 | Permanent Link
Adrian Rojak decides to write up data compression programs on his site in an article titled, glibly, Data Compressors. (Note that his server doesn’t seem to be able to deal with his recent slashdotting, you might need to wait a few days to read the article.)
If you can navigate this slightly over-the-top site (good luck!), you might find some useful info, but to be honest, you could get the same stuff at sites like Jeff Gilchrist’s site, or the venerable Maximum Compression.
If you’re the type of person who likes to turn to the last page of a mystery to found out who did it, I’ll exert some fair use and the blockquote tag:
With the exception of the JPEG fileset, WinRK was the best compressor in virtually every fileset. Unfortunately, it was the slowest compressor in ALL filesets!
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Popular compressors like WinZip and WinRAR did not exhibit strong results when set to their fastest setting. However, they were faster than Squeez or SBC Archiver, especially WinZip.
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But the overall speed champion was the Linux favourite - gzip. It was consistently faster than any other compressor in this test (with the exception of the aforementioned StuffIt Standard). Thanks to its speed, it was also the compressor with the highest overall efficiency rating.
December 26th, 2005 at 8:34 pm
Just to add that c10n.info user “flagg” had also dropped by to tell us about this, thanks to him.
And for those finding it hard to navigate that site, the article is broken into 13 pages, and the “next” link is at the extreme bottom on each page, after all the crummy ads.