if i compress a folder with my files would i save more memory ?
2007-10-25 21:53:15 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
No - one of the qualities of a compression algorithm is its inability to yield savings on re-compression. However, you might still want to do this to consolidate a load of zip files into one, to attach to an e-mail, perhaps. In fact, when we are testing Bandwidth on an Internet connection we use compressed data because we know that the figures won't be inflated by some on-the-fly compression.
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2007-10-25 21:57:16 · answer #1 · answered by SadButTrue 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, I assume memory as in RAM; the active memory module that is fractional of a GB in size. What you did is exactly reverse of what you want to do, it would need to use more memory to provide access to a compressed directory.
2007-10-25 23:07:35 · answer #2 · answered by Andy T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes but not Much. the basic use of zipping is to send a folder as an attachment and to download and upload.
2007-10-25 22:22:00 · answer #3 · answered by zeru_gunner 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
at least you would save diskspace, that was the initial idea behind file compression back in the days when diskspace was worth gold.
2007-10-25 23:02:39 · answer #4 · answered by DarQ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no... a zip file is already compressed... u cant compress it more
2007-10-25 22:35:54 · answer #5 · answered by hyperthreadinguy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no
your hard drive is diff from your memory.
2007-10-25 22:02:23 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋