Using DIET is advantageous where speed of disk reads and writes is important to you. It takes a little longer to read/write a compressed file because the file must be decompressed to load, and recompressed to save. Stacker automatically uncompresses and recompresses all your files. DIET lets you leave specific files uncompressed, letting you read/ write those files to the disk in a fraction of the time required with Stacker installed.
David Hamachek
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