Re: Compression through normalization

From: Doug Ewell (dewell@adelphia.net)
Date: Sat Dec 06 2003 - 02:29:46 EST

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    Mark Davis <mark dot davis at jtcsv dot com> wrote:

    > Think you are missing a negative, see below.
    >
    >> Compression techniques may optionally replace certain sequences with
    >> canonically equivalent sequences to improve efficiency, but *only* if
    >> the output of the decompressed text is expected to be
    > is not required to be
    >> codepoint-for-codepoint equivalent to the original. Whether this is
    >> true or not depends on the user and the intended use of the text.

    That's one of those fun side effects of going back and tinkering with a
    paragraph 99 times before hitting the Send button..

    Of course Mark's text is what I meant to say.

    -Doug Ewell
     Fullerton, California
     http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/



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