Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!mcvax!unido!qtecmuc!ger From: ger@qtecmuc.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: trivial improvement Re: standards is - (nf) Message-ID: <19500015@qtecmuc.UUCP> Date: Tue, 14-Jul-87 09:03:00 EDT Article-I.D.: qtecmuc.19500015 Posted: Tue Jul 14 09:03:00 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 17-Jul-87 03:14:55 EDT References: <2377@whuts.UUCP> Lines: 15 Nf-ID: #R:whuts:-237700:qtecmuc:19500015:000:501 Nf-From: qtecmuc!ger Jul 14 14:03:00 1987 > I ran multiple tests (reported here about three months ago) of > the various "archiving" programs. The test covered several million > bytes, of various archive candidates (source code and > documentation). > *Squashing, at best, only produced 2.3% improvement, normally > less than 2.0% improvement* I call that a trivial improvement, Has anyone tried the improvement on binaries ?? I think, testing only source code and docs is not enough. Gerhard Pehland UUCP: ..!seismo!unido!qtecmuc!ger