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From: Alan Horn <ahorn@deorth.org>
Subject: Re: Can compression at filesystem level improve overall performance?
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 16:12:50 -0800 (PST)
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On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, The Amazing Dragon wrote:

>> >
>> Too much complexity.  LZW is fast and effective.
>
>...and stupidly encumbered by patents (RSA at least was non-trivial and
>non-obvious) in some countries (the USA patent has expired). LZ77
>varients (libz) are quite effective too.


Forgive me.. I though LZW was still only encumbered in Canada and Japan ?

Cheers,

Al