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From: nicholaA@moravian.EDU (Andy Nicholas)
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Subject: lharc
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Date: 12 May 89 16:51:18 GMT
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I had a friend send me the lharc sources from the guys in Japan.  I ported
it to our suns and it works fine, except for the fact that it's god-awfully
_slow_.  It takes our sun 4/280, a 10 mips machine, around 3 minutes to
compress a 230k FrameMaker document.  It took a standard PC over 25 minutes.
(which is a riot, because the decompression on the sun/4 took 11 seconds).

Has anyone seen anything done to the larc and lharc stuff to increase the
speed?  I really haven't looked at them too thoroughly, but some of the
stuff looks like it could be rewritten a bit...

andy

btw -- I was using the lzhuf to do that on the pc, the faster of the 2
       super-lz algorithms.  The lzari algorithm is almost 2/3 slower yet.