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The blocksize parameter tells bzip to use 100 000 Byte * blocksize blocks to compress the string. In the example above we can see the output size and time needed of bz[2] to bz[9] are nearly the same, because there ware just 189 058 Byte of data to compress and in this case bz[2] to bz[9] means "compress all data et once".
So we may notice a bigger difference in speed and compression rate with bigger files.
the workfactor parameter sets, how fast bzip switches in the slower fallback algorithm, if the standard algorithm gets problems with much repetitive data. 0 means, bzip uses the default value of 30. This option is recommend.
For more information about the parameter look at http://www.bzip.org/1.0.3/html/low-level.html#bzcompress-init
bzcompress
(PHP 4 >= 4.0.4, PHP 5)
bzcompress — Compress a string into bzip2 encoded data
Description
bzcompress() compresses the given string and returns it as bzip2 encoded data.
Parameters
- source
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The string to compress.
- blocksize
-
Specifies the blocksize used during compression and should be a number from 1 to 9 with 9 giving the best compression, but using more resources to do so. blocksize defaults to 4.
- workfactor
-
Controls how the compression phase behaves when presented with worst case, highly repetitive, input data. The value can be between 0 and 250 with 0 being a special case and the default value.
Regardless of the workfactor , the generated output is the same.
Return Values
The compressed string or number of error in case of error.
Examples
Example #1 Compressing data
<?php
$str = "sample data";
$bzstr = bzcompress($str, 9);
echo $bzstr;
?>
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diego a messenger do dsemmler do de
24-Apr-2009 10:01
24-Apr-2009 10:01
plasma
07-Sep-2008 05:39
07-Sep-2008 05:39
Here is a benchmark comparing strengths of bzip and gzip compression:
gz[0] - 1.647ms - 189058 Byte (100%)
gz[1] - 3.333ms - 44572 Byte (23.58%)
gz[2] - 3.519ms - 42685 Byte (22.58%)
gz[3] - 4.713ms - 40840 Byte (21.6%)
gz[4] - 5.274ms - 39111 Byte (20.69%)
gz[5] - 6.526ms - 37039 Byte (19.59%)
gz[6] - 8.036ms - 36206 Byte (19.15%)
gz[7] - 9.098ms - 35940 Byte (19.01%)
gz[8] - 12.87ms - 35713 Byte (18.89%)
gz[9] - 14.319ms - 35707 Byte (18.89%)
bz[1] - 40.282ms - 32247 Byte (17.06%)
bz[2] - 43.716ms - 29690 Byte (15.7%)
bz[3] - 43.765ms - 29690 Byte (15.7%)
bz[4] - 44.213ms - 29690 Byte (15.7%)
bz[5] - 43.704ms - 29690 Byte (15.7%)
bz[6] - 43.814ms - 29690 Byte (15.7%)
bz[7] - 43.934ms - 29690 Byte (15.7%)
bz[8] - 43.725ms - 29690 Byte (15.7%)
bz[9] - 45.129ms - 29690 Byte (15.7%)