nicholaA@moravian.EDU (Andy Nicholas) (05/12/89)
I had a friend send me the lharc sources from the guys in Japan. I ported
it to our suns and it works fine, except for the fact that it's god-awfully
_slow_. It takes our sun 4/280, a 10 mips machine, around 3 minutes to
compress a 230k FrameMaker document. It took a standard PC over 25 minutes.
(which is a riot, because the decompression on the sun/4 took 11 seconds).
Has anyone seen anything done to the larc and lharc stuff to increase the
speed? I really haven't looked at them too thoroughly, but some of the
stuff looks like it could be rewritten a bit...
andy
btw -- I was using the lzhuf to do that on the pc, the faster of the 2
super-lz algorithms. The lzari algorithm is almost 2/3 slower yet.