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| author | B. Watson <urchlay@slackware.uk> | 2025-12-10 02:22:59 -0500 |
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| committer | B. Watson <urchlay@slackware.uk> | 2025-12-10 02:22:59 -0500 |
| commit | 70461919cbecff93f203f0d6fd710b184707741c (patch) | |
| tree | 59efc59aac51b094439187b3ba8edd97d5288486 | |
| parent | 56b4fa84a48a1ad07eef1b5bb85e12acccc6e8b4 (diff) | |
| download | alftools-70461919cbecff93f203f0d6fd710b184707741c.tar.gz | |
Update CHANGES.txt and alf man page.
| -rw-r--r-- | CHANGES.txt | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | src/alf.1 | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | src/alf.rst | 2 |
3 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt index 2c3cae3..45284f6 100644 --- a/CHANGES.txt +++ b/CHANGES.txt @@ -1,7 +1,8 @@ 0.4.0: - alf and unalf now detect duplicate Atari filenames. - alf lets the user set the archive filename for each file (file=FILE, e.g.) -- alf is 30% faster than it was in 0.3.2. +- alf is 2 to 3 times as fast as in 0.3.2 (depending on the size and entropy + of the files being compressed). - unalf can extract by file number (-n) rather than wildcards. - unalf can split an ALF file into multiple ALF files (-s option) without extracting. @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ level margin: \\n[rst2man-indent\\n[rst2man-indent-level]] .\" new: \\n[rst2man-indent\\n[rst2man-indent-level]] .in \\n[rst2man-indent\\n[rst2man-indent-level]]u .. -.TH "ALF" 1 "2025-12-09" "0.4.0" "Urchlay's Atari 8-bit Tools" +.TH "ALF" 1 "2025-12-10" "0.4.0" "Urchlay's Atari 8-bit Tools" .SH NAME alf \- create Atari 8-bit ALF archives .\" RST source for alf(1) man page. Convert with: @@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ a DOS capable of handling multi\-megabyte files... Performance is pretty good, as of alftools\-0.3.0. For small files like you\(aqd use on an Atari (up to 50KB), it\(aqs basically instantaneous (0.008 seconds) on the author\(aqs modest i7 workstation. For a 1MB -text file, it takes 0.037 sec; for 1MB of random garbage, it\(aqs 0.062 +text file, it takes 0.026 sec; for 1MB of random garbage, it\(aqs 0.043 sec (and the resulting ALF file is 36% larger than the garbage). .sp By comparison, \fBzip\fP takes 0.06 seconds to compress the 1MB text file, diff --git a/src/alf.rst b/src/alf.rst index 32893a6..5d6114a 100644 --- a/src/alf.rst +++ b/src/alf.rst @@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ Performance Performance is pretty good, as of alftools-0.3.0. For small files like you'd use on an Atari (up to 50KB), it's basically instantaneous (0.008 seconds) on the author's modest i7 workstation. For a 1MB -text file, it takes 0.037 sec; for 1MB of random garbage, it's 0.062 +text file, it takes 0.026 sec; for 1MB of random garbage, it's 0.043 sec (and the resulting ALF file is 36% larger than the garbage). By comparison, **zip** takes 0.06 seconds to compress the 1MB text file, |