[fpc-pascal] helpsystem, some numbers

Vincent Snijders vsnijders at vodafonevast.nl
Tue Oct 28 11:40:51 CET 2008


Graeme Geldenhuys schreef:
> The important thing for TZipFile component is that the archive format
> must compresses every file separately. Otherwise you can't extract a
> specific file without unpacking everything first.
> 

And at the same time, that is its weak point for packing a large number of similar 
documents, like the LCL documentation. It only compresses one document at a time, so 
it cannot use the information of previous documents for compressing. So it is nice 
for on disk compression, but less valuable for distribution purposes, see also 
Marco's numbers.

Vincent



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