# HG changeset patch # User Laurens Holst # Date 1583095046 -3600 # Sun Mar 01 21:37:26 2020 +0100 # Node ID 38ed731949b45689dc994a6677103fb6c098112a # Parent b6aa8cc86b53943edc8db483044d30138865eeeb README: Add a bit more to the project information. diff --git a/README.md b/README.md --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -16,6 +16,33 @@ * Support: * License: Simplified BSD License +By generating the Huffman decompression code, it performs very well compared to +other compression tools. + +Philips NMS 8245 MSX2 (openMSX) with Sunrise IDE: + + * gunzip 1.1 (244129 bytes): 87s + * gunzip 1.0 (244129 bytes): 133s + * pmext 2.22 (247552 bytes): 619s + * lhext 1.33 (252614 bytes): 278s + * tunzip 0.91 (247414 bytes): 341s + +Panasonic FS-A1GT turboR (openMSX) with Sunrise IDE: + + * gunzip 1.1 (244129 bytes): 18s + * gunzip 1.0 (244129 bytes): 26s + * pmext 2.22 (247552 bytes): 127s + * lhext 1.33 (252614 bytes): 49s + * tunzip 0.91 (247414 bytes): 46s + +The DEFLATE algorithm which powers gzip is also used by various other compressed +file formats, such as zip, png and vgm. As such this implementation is also used +by [VGMPlay](http://www.grauw.nl/projects/vgmplay/), which triggered its +development, and [PNGView](http://www.grauw.nl/projects/pngview/). + +Additionally Louthrax has used this code to implement +[SofaUnZip](https://www.louthrax.net/mgr/sofaunzip.html), and Prodatron used it +to implement unzip in [SymbOS](http://www.symbos.de/). System requirements -------------------