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iSilo™ comparisons

This page provides comparison information for iSilo™.

compression

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The following tables use Project Gutenberg's version of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace as the example document, providing a comparison of the text, Palm Doc, iSilo™ 2.x, and iSilo™ 3.x document sizes.

compared with original text

Document Format	Size (bytes)	Savings (bytes)	Percentage Reduction
Text	3,282,452	n/a	n/a
Palm Doc	1,800,331	1,482,121	45.15%
iSilo™ 2.x	1,478,324	1,804,128	54.96%
iSilo™ 3.x	1,472,359	1,810,093	55.14%

compared with Palm Doc format

Document Format	Size (bytes)	Savings (bytes)	Percentage Reduction
Palm Doc	1,800,331	n/a	n/a
iSilo™ 2.x	1,478,324	322,007	17.89%
iSilo™ 3.x	1,472,359	327,972	18.22%

notes

MakeDocW version 0.71 was used to create the Palm Doc version of the document.
iSiloWeb 1.18 (no longer available) was used to create the iSilo™ 2.x version of the document.
iSiloX 3.0 was used to create the iSilo™ 3.x version of the document.
These comparisons are based on compression of plain text content and are not meant to be representative of file sizes when images and formatting information are present in the document.