Newsgroups: comp.compression
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!looking!brad
From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Subject: Re: LHarc versus UNIX compress
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 91 22:16:27 GMT
Message-ID: <1991Mar29.221627.29985@looking.on.ca>
References: <1991Mar29.093617@Unify.com>

You are not likely to find anything that is much faster than compress,
although one can find programs that compress better -- much better -- and
at similar speed.

The LZW algorithm was designed for speed -- designed to be implemented in
hardware, even.   So it would be a serious achievement to get something
significantly faster.
-- 
Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473