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diff --git a/doc/lzip.texinfo b/doc/lzip.texinfo index f29b29e..87e223f 100644 --- a/doc/lzip.texinfo +++ b/doc/lzip.texinfo @@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ @finalout @c %**end of header -@set UPDATED 27 April 2009 -@set VERSION 1.6-pre1 +@set UPDATED 21 May 2009 +@set VERSION 1.6-pre2 @dircategory Data Compression @direntry @@ -84,11 +84,12 @@ compressed output in volumes of a given size, even when reading from standard input. This allows the direct creation of multivolume compressed tar archives. -The amount of memory required for compression is about 2 times the -dictionary size limit plus 8 times the dictionary size really used. For -decompression is a little more than the dictionary size really used. -Lzip will automatically use the smallest possible dictionary size for -each member without exceeding the given limit. It is important to +The amount of memory required for compression is about 5 MiB plus 1 or 2 +times the dictionary size limit (1 if input file size is less than +dictionary size limit, else 2) plus 8 times the dictionary size really +used. For decompression is a little more than the dictionary size really +used. Lzip will automatically use the smallest possible dictionary size +for each member without exceeding the given limit. It is important to appreciate that the decompression memory requirement is affected at compression time by the choice of dictionary size limit. |