LZ: Some interesting compression results...

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LZ: Some interesting compression results...

I found a Huffman 2 pass compresser on the Internet.  It was rather fussy.
Anyway, here's the results after some trial and error (I used ZTetris by
Jimmy Mardell as my test subject):


-rw-r--r--   1 oxymoron     2186 Sep 10 15:17 ztetris.85s
-rw-r--r--   1 oxymoron     2644 Sep 11 20:25 ztetris.85s.huf


As you can see, it made the program BIGGER by nearly 500 bytes.  Definitely
NOT a good sign.


Something tells me that this compression thing may be a pipe dream.


(By the way, the compressor compiled as 7695 bytes.  Yikes.  Of course, an
assembly version would be a little smaller.)


In case you're wondering, the file that I used can be found at:
ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/usenet/alt.sources/articles/06000-06999/6469.Z
But it's really not worth downloading, as it isn't going to help us.  Oh,
and you need UNIX to use it.  I could try to compile it for DOS, but as I
said there's really no point.
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