Thread: Installing Encyclopedia???
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fik is offline fik
2009-02-10 , 13:39
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Hi guys,

I'm going to try one of those wikipedia reader as well. I just noted that all of them use bzip2 compression. There is maybe a better solution using LZMA or more specifically Lzma Utils ( new version beeing named xz)

http://tukaani.org/lzma/
http://tukaani.org/xz

A quick check on file enwiki-20081008-pages-articles.xml

Code:
bzip2 4.1GB
xz    3.3GB


and decompression is faster than with bzip2 (they claim 2-5x faster, haven't tried by myself)
Last edited by fik; 2009-02-10 at 13:41.