Re: Nitro

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From: andrew
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1992 06:45

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In article <1atfn1INNi4p@stephen.cs.ubc.ca> sritchie@cs.ubc.ca (Stuart Ritchie) writes:
>andrew@cubetech.com (Andrew Loewenstern) writes:
>>If you have a Turbo, try turning on the "swaptimizer" (see the swaptab
>>man page).  The swaptimizer compresses pages before they go out to
>>disk to reduce disk IO.
>
>Does anyone know the compression algorithm used here?

Probably LZW.  Maybe even Huffman, but I would bet on LZW.  The trick
is to find something that will do a reasonable job as quickly as
possible.


andrew
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                        |  And know the place for the first time." -T.S. Eliot

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