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From: ar4@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Piper Keairnes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: StuffIt Deluxe (Compactor)
Keywords: StuffIt, Compactor
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Date: 31 Aug 90 20:44:17 GMT
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In <25930@cs.yale.edu> favorini-francis@cs.yale.edu (Francis Favorini) writes:


>Someone mentioned PKZIP a while back.  Is it my imagination or does this
>program (available for IBM PC's and clones) blow away any Mac program in
>speed, if not compression?  It takes about 10 seconds for 100 K and 
>regularly compresses files by at least 50%.  It would be great if the
>authors would write a Mac version.  Any comments?

I suppose my question to this would be:

	 Are Mac files different enough from what is encountered in the PC
	 world to warrant the difference in compression/decompression speed,
	 or is it just that the Mac programmers are using less efficient
	 (time and space) algorithms?

	 By DIFFERENT, I mean the existence of resource forks and data forks.

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Piper Keairnes
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