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Article #347Re: Golden Triangle Times Two
From: Tim Steele
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1992 18:14
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1992 18:14
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There would seem to be a theoretical difficulty with disk driver level compression. Chris Brown says that the software reports disks as being twice as big, presumably on the grounds that the compression routines in the driver average a 50% saving. Now here's the catch: that's an AVERAGE. Anyone who has played with compression programs (or knows about information theory) will know that some files actually get BIGGER when they are compressed. It all depends on the amount of redundancy in the information. So what happens if you start filling your disk up with files that Times Two can't compress? Does it readjust its estimate of how big the disk is, or does it fall over in a heap? Tim
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!pipex!tadtec!tjfs From: tjfs@tadtec.uucp (Tim Steele) Subject: Re: Golden Triangle Times Two Organization: Tadpole Technology plc Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 18:14:23 GMT Message-ID: <TJFS.92Nov4131423@coffee.tadtec.uucp> In-Reply-To: brownc@p4.cs.man.ac.uk's message of 3 Nov 92 09:46:42 GMT References: <720410842.AA00000@blkcat.UUCP> <1992Oct30.042204.13779@netcom.com> <1992Nov3.094642@p4.cs.man.ac.uk> Sender: usenet@tadtec.uucp (news admin) Nntp-Posting-Host: coffee.tadtec.co.uk Lines: 19