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Re: Compression and dictionaries

From
EMErik Mouw <erik@harddisk-recovery.com>
Date
Aug 14, 2006, 10:06 UTC
Message-ID
<20060814100636.GA26859@harddisk-recovery.com>
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<9e4733910608132107j7bca0271g360de3447febbf51@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 12:07:45AM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:
> Since we are encoding C many strings will always be present (if,
> static, define, const, char, include, int, void, while, continue,
> etc).  Do you have any tools to identify the top 500 strings in C
> code? The fixed dictionary would get hardcoded into the git apps.

We are not only encoding C anymore. Git might have started as a tool to maintain the linux kernel tree, but its use got beyond that.

Erik
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