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Eiii

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Compression!
« on: August 30, 2006, 02:10:14 AM »
I used PAQ8F on a 30MB folder of maps, and got it down to 5MB. It took a while, but could be really useful for 56k users or people who want to download tons of maps and just run the decompressor overnight.

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jitspoe

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Re: Compression!
« Reply #1 on: August 30, 2006, 11:57:25 AM »
How does it compare to bz2, 7zip, and some of the other popular algorithms?

Eiii

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Re: Compression!
« Reply #2 on: August 30, 2006, 12:14:29 PM »
It generally compresses better, but is much, much slower. It's not for everyday use, or anything, but for people with the slowest connectios ever it might be useful.

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« Reply #3 on: August 30, 2006, 02:19:24 PM »
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Re: Compression!
« Reply #4 on: August 30, 2006, 02:45:08 PM »
But PAQ8F doesn't have a dictionary bult into it...

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« Reply #5 on: August 30, 2006, 04:22:46 PM »
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Re: Compression!
« Reply #6 on: August 30, 2006, 04:57:35 PM »
This compression might be bad to use for downloading individual maps files- it takes quite a while to compress/decompress the files.

I'll compress midnight2.bsp and tell you how long it takes.

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Re: Compression!
« Reply #7 on: August 30, 2006, 08:02:01 PM »
How does it compare to .UHA?

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« Reply #8 on: August 30, 2006, 10:33:09 PM »
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