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From: "Arthur" <arfa AT clara DOT net>
To: "DJGPP Mailing List" <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: This is not a problem but...
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 1998 15:32:47 +0100
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>> True, but I was thinking strictly theoretically. In practice
>> (especially
>> with my UDMA Hard Disc with onboard cache) loading the compressed file
>> would
>> be slower. But think: how much of a speed overhead does compression
>> have? On
>> my ST, uncompressing a 2MB zipped file takes several minutes. On a
>> DX2/66 it
>> takes a matter of seconds. Why don't more people use data compression?
>
>There's a really simple answer to that question:  Because disk space is
>really, really cheap.


This is the standard MicroSoft answer. And disc space is not cheap to a
student.

How quickly can you fill up a 4.3GB hard disc? It took me 6 months. At the
moment, disc space is at a premium on my computer.


James Arthur
jaa AT arfa DOT clara DOT net