Re: Compression performance

From: Chuck Swiger (cswiger_at_mac.com)
Date: 09/16/04

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    Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 12:20:02 -0400
To: "Hall, Charles V" <Charles.Hall@Nav-International.com>

    Hall, Charles V wrote:
    > I'm running 4.10 prod on an Intel P4 and I want to maximize compression
    > (i.e. /usr/bin/compress) performance--this seems to be my current
    > bottleneck.
    >
    > What steps can I take to accomplish this? (ZLIB, FPU support, anything
    > else?)

    Try using 'gzip --fast' instead of 'compress', assuming you are concerned with
    minimizing the CPU time required to compress files. These types of
    compression algorithms use integer operations almost exclusively; the FPU
    isn't used significantly. 

    -- 
-Chuck
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