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From: larry@nstar.uucp (Larry Snyder)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.admin
Subject: Re: Cnews batching & 16 bit compress
Message-ID: <1990Jul09.170549.22946@nstar.uucp>
Date: 9 Jul 90 17:05:49 GMT
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zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff) writes:

>Here are some figures:

>16 bit compression:  7.2 seconds,  88827 bytes
>12 bit compression:  8.4 seconds, 113879 bytes   <- 16%/28% more.

>The test batch was 276K to start.  Also figure the cpu time needed to
>send/receive the larger 12 bit compressed batch.  

Then why does the news software default to 12 bit compression?

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