Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 May 2006 13:42:19 +0200 (MEST) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: Linux Kernel Source Compression |
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>> just wanted to remark that I never liked that bzip was replaced by bzip2 >> (were there license issues?) since bzip's compression was/is often >> stronger: > >bzip1 uses arithmetic encoding which is heavily patented. bzip2 uses >huffman instead, which isn't, but is slightly (10% is often quoted) >less efficient. I guess bzip3 could use range coding which is >supposedly patent-free[1] and has similar compression ratio than >arithmetic coding. > Although plans for a bzip3 have been posted (I think removing the MTF and so on...), it has not been done yet. Maybe I am wrong here.
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