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Article #1053Re: Fast compression
From: Gard Eggesbo Abrahamsen
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 12:25
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 12:25
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Chris (cbusch@ub.d.umn.edu) wrote: : Hello : What is the fastest compression technique? The fastest compression techique is probably coding in this form: if bit 7 is cleared, the following n bytes are to be read directly. if bit 7 is set, the copy the next byte n times. This is FAST but a really crappy packing, and you REALLY shouldn't use it. : Chris Busch CBUSCH@ub.d.umn.edu Gard Eggesboe Abrahamsen gardabr@unix1.mrih.no "Why sort what you don't need to sort?" Gard 1992
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Newsgroups: rec.games.programmer Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!aun.uninett.no!ugle.unit.no!unix1!gardabr From: gardabr@unix1 (Gard Eggesbo Abrahamsen) Subject: Re: Fast compression Message-ID: <1992Nov10.122535.27889@ugle.unit.no> Sender: news@ugle.unit.no (NetNews Administrator) Organization: University of Trondheim, Norway X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6] References: <1dmqvsINN497@ub.d.umn.edu> Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 12:25:35 GMT Lines: 14