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XAR TOC Compression #60

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
For XAR to be fully and readily adopted for more common use, it may be wise
to implement a commonly accepted compression (optimized for textual data)
into use against the TOC XML.

By "commonly accepted", I mean to indicate a compression method that is
widely available and documented, has several known and stable
implementations, and is free and open source.

Currently, if one was to use XAR to store a large quantity of files, the
size of the TOC can grow massively, potentially even negating the effect of
compression.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by Wesley.S...@gmail.com on 28 Aug 2008 at 11:16

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
The TOC is currently gzipped.

Original comment by bbraun on 28 Aug 2008 at 11:37

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Sorry, I mis-read the file format. My apologies :)

Original comment by Wesley.S...@gmail.com on 28 Aug 2008 at 11:40