From: Shawn Pearce Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 05:21:56 GMT Subject: Re: A look at some alternative PACK file encodings Message-ID: <20060907052155.GA31580@spearce.org> In-Reply-To: <9e4733910609061623k73086dbey4a600ecf2852c024@mail.gmail.com> Jon Smirl wrote: > Shawn is doing some prototype work on true dictionary based > compression. I don't know how far along he is but it has potential for > taking 30% off the Mozilla pack. Not very far. I've put some work into it but got distracted by the sliding mmap window bit. So I don't have anything worth sharing yet. Which is why I've been quiet on the subject. :-) -- Shawn.