[Question] How to know the compression ratio on the file we are trying to compress?

[ashishgupta1350]

The work I am focusing on tries to calculate the compression ratio of the original text to the byte text output. Question is how to know how much compression (memory wise) is being performed as a fraction of original text.

I can see one way to do this. Save the compress("some string") output to a file and see the file size. Is there a better way to do this?

Thanks for the library though, you automated a lot of what I wanted to do.