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For my own twisted interest, I ran a few unix file compression methods on the ["Declaration of Independence" http://earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/freedom/doi/text.html] (html version). |{ border=0 }{ align=right bgcolor=gray style=color:white }{ width=110 } __Method__ |{ width=100 } __Bytes__ | |{ align=right } Uncompressed: | 13641 | |{ align=right } gzip: | 5508 | To really stress test the different unix compression programs, I concatenated 25,000 copies: |{ border=0 }{ align=right bgcolor=gray style=color:white }{ width=110 } __Method__ |{ width=100 } __Bytes__ | |{ align=right } Uncompressed: | 341,025,000 | |{ align=right } compress: | 90,666,281 | |{ align=right } zip: | 2,378,380 | |{ align=right } gzip: | 2,378,313 | |{ border=0 }{ align=right bgcolor=gray style=color:white }{ width=110 } __Method__ |{ width=100 } __Bytes__ |{ width=100 } __Time__ | |{ align=right } Uncompressed: | 341,025,000 | - | |{ align=right } compress: | 90,666,281 | 3m39.374s | |{ align=right } bzip2: | | > 1 hour | |{ align=right } zip: | 2,378,380 | 1m51.983s | |{ align=right } gzip: | 2,378,313 | 1m43.769s | |
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