Re: Compression vs compaction for SAV

[Patrick Townsend <townsend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Don,

I find it interesting, too. Our zip compression algorithm regularly gets 
about 60 percent compression on a save file that is *already* compressed.

Patrick

At 11:51 AM 5/24/2000 -0400, Don wrote:


>Dumb question du jour:
>
>Out of curiosity, if you use compressions on the 400 you get about a 1.7:1
>ration, but if you use compaction you get a 3:1 ratio.
>
>Now, this begs the question, why doesn't IBM improve the compression
>algorithm used to in effect be the compaction algorithm as we get alot
>better media utilization...?
>
>What am I not seeing here???
>
>Don in DC
>
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