[A83] Re: Is compression possible?


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[A83] Re: Is compression possible?




> Van: Joe Pemberton <joe@joepnet.com>
>
> > The exprience on the TI-86 would seem to suggest that compression is
> > feasible.  For the TI-86, there are already (at least)  two compression
> > programs: [..]
>
> Those programs used very large buffers (16k+) [...]

<grin> That's a near puff of what they use on *modern* computers. 7-Zip for
example easily fills 30mo RAM when compressing... Not that using more
memory for compression is linear to compression-ratio, 7z files are just
10-20% smaller than zip files (tends to be 10% rather than 20% in my
experience).

	Henk Poley <><