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• Subject: Re: Compiled XML
• From: Mike Brown <mike@s...>
• Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 22:53:59 -0700 (MST)
• In-reply-to: <RP4154YUNJQPUSSMOJ3ZHGKGZ3VDVP.3ca0d3d8@MChamp>"from Mike Champion at Mar 26, 2002 03:02:32 pm"

Mike Champion wrote:
> In general, though, you would be well-advised to not try to compress 
> arbitrary text better than gzip can.  You'll fail.

http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/index.html is gradually gaining wider
acceptance and distribution. I'd say it's where gzip was in 1993-94. It's a
little more CPU intensive but is also consistently better than gzip.

Coincidentally with the recent discussions on xml-dev, I see the author is a
functional programming fan :)

   - Mike
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