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- From: Jason <tmr@cosine.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: Compression
- Date: Mon, 15 Apr 96 00:33:06 GMT
- Organization: Cosine Systems
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- TODD ELLIOTT (telliott@ubmail) wrote:
-
- : This compression method was used to store the mnemonics for the built-in
- : C128 monitor. It is a neatly designed compression method, but it is not
- : the best one available. Personally, I like the tree algorithim compression
- : method such as Huffman coding.
-
- I don't think Huffman encoding would really do a lot as far as this
- particular job goes. If all the opcode names were arranged in one long
- string, possibly. But as individual 3 character names I think Huffman
- would do its nut!
-
- Speaking of Huffman, Cosine would now like to claim the *fastest* Huffman
- style packer on the C64... TARDIS v3.1... As long as you don't mind
- moving all the files over to an Amiga to compress!
-
- Jason =-)
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