In Reply to: Re: Anything lost in higher compression? posted by J.Mac on October 25, 2006 at 11:08:32:
Actually, the point about a higher compression ratio requiring more CPU power to decompress is not entirely true. In many cases, higher compression results in significantly LESS processing power for decompression. For example, a run of 10,000 zeros could be compressed into a few bytes (for a 10,000 to 3 ratio) and decompressed in much less time than it would take to decompress a run of compressed random data.
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- Re: Anything lost in higher compression? - Scrith 12:58:56 10/26/06 (1)
- Re: Anything lost in higher compression? - J.Mac 14:11:35 10/26/06 (0)