Re: gzcompress/gzdeflate default compression level?

Gerard, et al -- ..and then Gerard Samuel said... % % On Wednesday 29 October 2003 03:27 pm, David T-G wrote: % > % > ...and then Gerard Samuel said... % > % % > % on the string I tested with. % > % > With what sort of data are you working? How are you gzipping (PEAR % > module, class, system call, ...)? % % Right now, Im compressing large serialized strings using the php functions That sounds good; you probably have enough material there to get some good compression, and ASCII is always easy. So perhaps you may only get better performance with higher numbers if you have a LOT of data. % gzcompress/gzdeflate. OK. % % > % Does anyone know what the default compression levels are? % > % > My gzip man page says it's -6; I'd suspect it would be the same for any % > library call. % % Didn't think to check man pages, but it says the same here, so I guess its % a good assumption... It's a good place to start :-) % % Thanks Sure thing! HTH & HAND :-D -- David T-G * There is too much animal courage in (play) davidtg@justpickone.org * society and not sufficient moral courage. (work) davidtgwork@justpickone.org -- Mary Baker Eddy, "Science and Health" http://justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!