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| author | Samuel Trassare <samuel_trassare@yahoo.com> |
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| date | Wed Mar 07 10:16:22 2012 -0800 (2012-03-07) |
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1 bzip2 is a freely available, patent free, high-quality data compressor. It
2 typically compresses files to within 10% to 15% of the best available techniques
3 (the PPM family of statistical compressors), whilst being around twice as fast
4 at compression and six times faster at decompression.