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From: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Comparison of compaction routines
Message-ID: <669@omen.UUCP>
Date: 26 Apr 88 20:42:38 GMT
References: <483@csccat.UUCP> <10564@steinmetz.ge.com>
Reply-To: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX)
Organization: Omen Technology Inc, Portland Oregon
Lines: 12
Keywords: good data, bad (biased) conclusion

I ran some comparisions on a 157741 ASCII (shar archive) file.
Compress and zoo were compiled 32 bits, arc is an old version
compiled 286 small model with packed structures.  The new
squashing arc on the net won't compile on SYS V systems yet.
The zoo I use is compiled from sources about a year old.

User	Sys	Real	File	Program(s)
5.34	1.98	7.98	75083	time (tar cvf baz rzsz.sh;compress baz)
12.82	0.68	16.36	84375	time zoo a foo rzsz.sh
24.86	1.96	29.26	95735	time arc a foo rzsz.sh
4.52	0.86	5.48	74697	time compress rzsz.sh
4.60	0.90	5.72	85306	time compress -b13 rzsz.sh