Peter Eisentraut escribió:
> James Mansion wrote:
>> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>>>> c. Are there any well-known pitfalls/objections which would prevent
>>>> me from
>>>> changing the algorithm to something more efficient (read: IO-bound)?
>>>
>>> copyright licenses and patents
>>>
>> Would it be possible to have a plugin facility?
>
> Well, before we consider that, we'd probably want to see proof about the
> effectiveness of other compression methods.
I did some measurements months ago, and it was very clear that libz
compression was a lot tighter than the PGLZ code.
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