>>1
8/10 troll
>>8
10/10
>>9
8/10
>>14
Informative. However:
1. Compression is valuable, now more than ever since the CPU is so much faster than long-term storage media. It's always profitable, even in databases, filesystems, etc.
2. I use .tgz instead of .tar.gz to piss people off.
3. bzip2 compresses better than gzip. However, it's slow as fuck.
4. 7-Zip offers a superior algorithm to both of them, and is faster than bzip2. It's also better to archive and compress in the same step, because you can tell what files do you have and perform certain operations on the file such as uncompressing just one of the files (if solid compression is disabled) more efficiently.