Compression algorithims....

[Jim Hubbard]

I went to the compression newsgroups, but all I saw was spam. So, I
thought I'd post his question here to get the best info I could from other
programmers.

Which compression algorithm offers the fastest compression of text data?

Which compression algorithm offers the best compression of text data?

I need to do in memory compression of text data before sending it over a
TCP connection. Zip is the old standby....but are there better algorithms
for speed or compression ratios?

Thanks for your help.

[Cor]

Hi Jim,

Search this newsgroup for it on Google

It has been very much spoken there in very much sitiations.
Fergus Cooney did a lot of research in it, so maybe you can have a look at
it.

But also others.

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e...t.languages.vb

I hope you find it,

Cor

[phoenix]

Looks like you were looking in the wrong groups. Try comp.compression it is
pretty active. One of the frequent posters in there maintains a good site
(http://www.datacompression.info). Not all links he points to are recent but
you can find some decent thing under 'benchmarks'

Yves

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I went to the compression newsgroups, but all I saw was spam. So, I
thought I'd post his question here to get the best info I could from other
programmers.

Which compression algorithm offers the fastest compression of text data?
Which compression algorithm offers the best compression of text data?

I need to do in memory compression of text data before sending it over a TCP connection. Zip is the old standby....but are there better algorithms
for speed or compression ratios?

Thanks for your help.