Compression

bzip2 is amazing. On Friday I watched 430,000 triples — 45MB in RDF/XML, 62MB in ntriples — compress into an 860KB bz2 file.

Granted, the data was very regular, but that's still 2 bytes per triple. Good job, bzip2! That's much more portable!

Posted at 2007-02-24 13:44:12 by Richard • Link to Compression
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