DLL/GPL/proprietary link revisited

[Rasmus Emil Møller]

Zlib and libbz2 would compress better, but the CPU price is too heavy.
The "problem" is that the backup pipe consumes about 10Mbytes/sec.
LZO is optimzed for speed, and my tests indicate that it (LZO) is
just able to deliver compressed data at that speed on our servers.

Rasmus Møller

>On Wednesday 12 June 2002 08:50 am, Rasmus Emil Møller wrote:
>
>> I searched and found that LZO compression (GPL'ed) could indeed
>> compress our backup data to a third of the original size and time spent.
>
>If the GPL is your concern, there are other compression libraries under
the
>LGPL or unrestricted licenses. Would zlib or libbz2 fit your needs?
>
>David Johnson


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