From c0d140b405fa912ae499afd73b1cd1a793fe3c5f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bartosz Taudul Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2018 20:47:08 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Add a note about external trace compression. --- manual/tracy.tex | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/manual/tracy.tex b/manual/tracy.tex index 683e4a4c..e43a7551 100644 --- a/manual/tracy.tex +++ b/manual/tracy.tex @@ -629,6 +629,8 @@ The new file contains the same data as the old one, but in the updated internal The update utility supports optional higher level of data compression, enabled by passing the \texttt{-{}-hc} parameter. It can reduce the trace size by \numrange{15}{20}\%, at a considerable time cost ($\sim17\times$~increase of compression time). +Note that trace files (even the ones created in high compression mode) are optimized for fast decompression. You still will be able to squeeze the data using normal compression methods. For example, 7-zip can compress traces to about 25\% of their uncompressed\footnote{Compressed internally.} size. + \section{Analyzing captured data} \label{analyzingdata}