27 Aug
2009
27 Aug
'09
10:47 p.m.
If CPU time is one of the major disincentives towards use of compression -- any reason lzop wasn't included? $ time lzop <ramsave >ramsave.lzo real 0m13.515s user 0m7.500s sys 0m1.340s $ time gzip -c <ramsave >ramsave.gz real 0m46.327s user 0m37.690s sys 0m1.360s $ ls -lh ramsave ramsave.lzo ramsave.gz -rw-rw---- 1 fvte fvte 707M Aug 26 22:26 ramsave -rw-r--r-- 1 root fvte 282M Aug 27 17:48 ramsave.gz -rw-rw---- 1 fvte fvte 330M Aug 27 17:47 ramsave.lzo