[comp.compression] ARJ source format

robjung@world.std.com (Robert K Jung) (04/25/91)

 
>If this is true, I'm interested in how he decreased compression time
>dramatically (substantially less than LHa's time) while still coding all
>of it in ANSI C (so Mr. Jung claims).  LHa is partly coded in assembler.
 
ARJ is coded in ANSI C for porting purposes.  However, ARJ 2.00 for the
IBM PC is optimized to assembler to more than double the compressor
and extractor speeds.  I am sorry if this information was buried in
my documentation.  (I maintain two source libraries).
 
Robert K Jung  (robjung@world.std.com)