Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen
From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: ZOO/ARC Discussion
Message-ID: <10759@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 9 May 88 18:32:48 GMT
References: <827@uvm-gen.UUCP> <21371@amdcad.AMD.COM> <542@csccat.UUCP> <8469@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <469@dalcsug.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <469@dalcsug.UUCP> dalegass@dalcsug.UUCP (Dale Gass) writes:
| 
| Granted, this takes longer, as data must be arc'ed several times, but this
| is not much of a problem, as PKARC blows away ZOO speedwise anyway.

  Your program sounds useful, but I would like to see the basis for your
statement about releative speeds. I see times in the range 1.3 to 1.7
longer with zoo. Your comments imply that it is equally fast to load
PKARC many times and run it at least twice as it is to run zoo. Once. I
don't think results less than 2:1 really qualify as "blowing away."

  Once more: those of us who must read the docs on a UNIX machine before
shipping to a PC don't have PKARC. We don't have batch files, either.

  Your script sounds very useful, but not a good choice for use as a
general standard for distribution.
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	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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