Compression - apparently not (was: misc thought: "box packing" and bitwise arithmetic cod

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apparently not (was: misc thought: "box packing" and bitwise arithmetic cod

cr88192

2005-11-23, 9:55 pm

"cr88192" <cr88192@NOSPAM.hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> ok, right now I don't have a coder (nor time to write one, though I will
> probably have time in a few days). just wondering if it could be
> interesting.
>
> ok, my last "box packing" coder was quite fast for decoding in my tests,
> but also gave crap compression, I assume, because of the tendency to only
> fit so many (integer number of) symbols in a box.
>
after experimenting with implementing the coder, I have found that it
doesn't do so well. the ratios still suck pretty badly...

it does give an idea for a possibly interesting way to implement a huffman
encoder. somehow I suspect deflate or similar probably already figured this
one out though.

oh well...

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