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From: robjung@world.std.com (Robert K Jung)
Newsgroups: comp.compression
Subject: ARJ source format
Message-ID: <1991Apr24.220925.15898@world.std.com>
Date: 24 Apr 91 22:09:25 GMT
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
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>If this is true, I'm interested in how he decreased compression time
>dramatically (substantially less than LHa's time) while still coding all
>of it in ANSI C (so Mr. Jung claims).  LHa is partly coded in assembler.
 
ARJ is coded in ANSI C for porting purposes.  However, ARJ 2.00 for the
IBM PC is optimized to assembler to more than double the compressor
and extractor speeds.  I am sorry if this information was buried in
my documentation.  (I maintain two source libraries).
 
Robert K Jung  (robjung@world.std.com)