Compression - Re: Please, PLEASE, hold your questions/comments/elsewhat til the end. Thank you. :)

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Re: Please, PLEASE, hold your questions/comments/elsewhat til the end. Thank you. :)

Jasen Betts

2006-03-31, 3:55 am

On 2006-03-30, Willem <willem@stack.nl> wrote:
> Threshold wrote:
> ) N is undefined for a reason. N can be any number you please, in this
> ) example. So your N+1 is really just another N.
>
> It doesn't work that way. To write a compressor that works on files
> of size N, you will have to define N. That compressor will not work
> on files of any other size.
>
> For N+1, you will need to write a different compressor.
>
> With me so far ?

why can't a generic compressor be written?

Bye.
Jasen

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