Darren New wrote:
> The basic pre-compression transform in bzip2:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burrows-Wheeler_transform
>
>
I'm too lazy and tired to read it through, but even the slight look at
it tells me why bzip2 ain't "streaming" compression (ie. you'll need the
whole file to uncompress it, unlike with gzip).
-Aero
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