A83: Re: Poll: Compression


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A83: Re: Poll: Compression




It really depends on what compression you use. I made a Huffman compression
engine on the 83 and it reaches quotas of 50% on Asm files and about 80% on
text or levels. Besides that, the de/compression engine takes about 2000
Bytes.

Solignac Julien
Cygnus X-1 Technologies
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-----Message d'origine-----
De : David Phillips <david@acz.org>
À : assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org <assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org>
Date : jeudi 6 janvier 2000 01:33
Objet : A83: Re: Re: Re: Poll


>
>Actually, compression works _best_ with text files out almost any other
type
>you can think of (depending on the complexity and format, certain graphics
>or sound might work better).  I think what you mean is that for the amount
>of text you would likely have on the calc, it wouldn't be worthwhile.  On
>the 83, I would probably agree there.
>
>> Compression doesn't work well enough with
>> text files to make it worthwhile. And a TI-BASIC program editor would
>require
>
>
>



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