Jeremy, No, I'm not sure. I copied that text verbatim from the book. The MOS note 563427.1 is probably the closest you're going to get to an explanation. But, I bet Fritz or Tanel could demonstrate conclusively exactly which compression algorithm is being used for each level using OS utilities. Seth Miller On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 12:43 PM, Jeremy Schneider < jeremy.schneider@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Seth Miller <sethmiller.sm@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > >> >> *• HIGH: This level provides the best compression ratio, but consumes the >> most CPU. (It corresponds to the GZIP compression.)* >> > > Just noticed this - are you sure "gzip" is correct? I think the gzip > program actually uses the zlib library to do the compression, so that > doesn't really make sense. > > -- > http://about.me/jeremy_schneider >