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Subject: Re: trivial improvement Re: standards is - (nf)
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Date: Tue, 14-Jul-87 09:03:00 EDT
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> 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
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