Re: [Lzip-bug] Feature Request/Question - Compression Level Information

[Timothy Beryl Grahek]

Hi Antonio,

> You can find in the lzip manual[1] the dictionary size limit used by 
> each compression level. 32 MiB corresponds to level -9. You can use 
> larger dictionary sizes with the option '--dictionary-size', but it is 
> not recommended because generally the increase in compression is small 
> and the resulting file may be difficult to decompress on systems with 
> little RAM.
>
> [1] http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/manual/lzip_manual.html#Invoking-lzip 

That is extremely helpful, thank you so much. What is the reason that 
you chose to indicate to some extent compression levels by dictionary 
size rather than by the level numbers themselves? Is it because it's 
more informative to use dictionary sizes exclusively?

Best regards,

Timothy Beryl Grahek