To .tar.gz or to .tar.bz2 in KDE ? -> huge difference in speed

[Alex Nordstrom]

On Friday, 10 Sep 2004 17:13, Ionel Catanescu wrote:
> Mine is a simple question.
> If browsing *.tar.gz's is pretty darn fast (in konqueror & all aps
> using kio & kparts) why shouldn't it be so for .tar.bz2's which are
> dead slow.

The bzip2 algorithm is several times slower than gzip but offers 
slightly better compression. That's just the way the universe is 
constructed. Try it on the command-line and you'll see it doesn't 
really have much to do with KDE.

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