26 Apr
2002
26 Apr
'02
1:02 a.m.
da Silva, Joe wrote:
I also downloaded 'upx' V1.20 and am very impressed with it! It was able to achieve even better compression of the 210K executable file than either 'gzip' or 'zip', by about 5%. The approximate results are as follows (both compiled with GPC) :
FWIW, bzip2 compresses most file substantially better than gzip/zip. I don't know if upx uses the bzip2 algorithms, but I suppose not, so there might be room for more improvement if it uses it ... Frank -- Frank Heckenbach, frank@g-n-u.de, http://fjf.gnu.de/, 7977168E GPC To-Do list, latest features, fixed bugs: http://www.gnu-pascal.de/todo.html