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- From: fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)
- Newsgroups: comp.compression
- Subject: Re: SuperCompression?
- Message-ID: <b28b03Urc7pX00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 00:36:01 GMT
- References: <1993Jan01.160904.15472@rose.com>
- Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
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- In article <1993Jan01.160904.15472@rose.com> ariel.frailich@rose.com (ariel frailich) writes:
- >Compression ratios of 33:1? 70:1???
- >
- >If it's not a misprint or misinterpretation, how is this possible? Does
- >anyone have any information on this?
-
- I imagine it's highly dependent on exactly what is being compressed. If
- you insert 500 zeros between each character, you can get 250:1 compression
- with RLE.
-
- I have a feeling that, if "Supercompression" got 33:1 ratios on your average
- ordinary text file, it would be a product in and of itself.
-
- >Ariel Frailich
- >ariel.frailich@rose.com
-
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- fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)
- [ Above opinions are mine, Amdahl has nothing to do with them, etc, etc. ]
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