That nasty slug is back

[Christian]

EDIT: removed version. After some more testing it seems that the context change produced more cache misses. So, it wasn't worth it.

Removed 1.24

[Black_Fox]

Thanks Christian, I'll try to look at it before the end of the week :)

[Christian]

And here comes Slug 1.24 - some internal changes. Ratio is about the same. Actually, compression of all my testsets (~3G) takes ~11M less space. But the speed is a little bit faster than 1.23 again - at least if I look at my results and those at metacompressor. I'm sorry for flooding the charts there. And I'm sorry for the awful web hoster - at least there are no cats.

Download Slug 1.24

[encode]

Quoting: Christian

at least there are no cats

;)

[LovePimple]

Thanks Chris! :)

Mirror: Download

[LovePimple]

[Black_Fox]

Quoting: Christian

at least there are no cats

Thanks for the new version. Well, USA and such are cool, but there are 200 slots for whole Czech republic I'll stick to LovePimple's site, I guess, since I currently don't know about any filehost, that works everywhere fast, without limits and without blurred cats
EDIT: Found a way, there are Firefox extensions to circumvent this :)

[Christian]

I finally created a tiny homepage to put an end to this web hosting nuisance with all their ads and cats and stuff. Sorry again, I did not know that megaupload is working that bad in eastern countries.

Slug's Homepage

[nimdamsk]

You'd better close <H2> tag in "i_navi.htm" if it's possible, otherwise Opera becomes insane :)

[encode]

Christian
By the way, can you briefly explain what means "distant variation of a ROLZ compression engine". Is it pure ROLZ or it's an LZ77 with some tricks? If it's about special tricks can you post some hints? ;)

[Christian]

Quoting: nimdamsk

You'd better close <H2> tag in "i_navi.htm" if it's possible, otherwise Opera becomes insane

Thanks for the heads-up. I did a quick change to the layout anyway - I hope it's not as hard on the eyes as the one before. If you find anything else please let me know.

Quoting: encode

Is it pure ROLZ or it's an LZ77 with some tricks? If it's about special tricks can you post some hints?

It's pure ROLZ with some tricks to speed up compression. I'll post some hints later or put them on the site.
;)

[Nania Francesco Antonio]

Very good site! Thanks for links Christian !! :) Hi!

[Christian]

Added Slug 1.25 to the site. :)

[Christian]

I just fixed a severe typo - see news for 'more' info. So, everyone who downloaded 1.25, please redownload 1.25b.

[LovePimple]

[Christian]

Added 1.25c to the homepage. I regard the IO stuff as finished. So, this is the last release for now.

[LovePimple]

Awesome! Thanks Chris!

Mirror: Download