Gzip better than Bz2 ? Normal?

[Mike McCarty]

Mike McCarty wrote:
> Franck Y wrote:
> 
>> Hi everyone,
>> I ve got a strange behavior with bz2 and gzip.
>> When i compress a small folder around 225 Mo the compression goes to
>>   49 Mo for gzip
>> 46 mo for bzip2
>>
>> When i compress a bigger folder around 5 Go the compression goes to
>> 2.6 Go for gzip
>> 3.1  mo for bzip2
> 
> 
> [snip]
> 
> Not surprising at all. It is a theorem that, for any compression
> algorithm which makes the compressed version of some file

Let me ammend that...

"... for any *lossless* compression algorithm..."

Mike
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