From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 17:15:55 GMT
Subject: Re: Compression and dictionaries
Message-ID: <44E0AFCB.10908@garzik.org>
In-Reply-To: <ebq9tc$3gl$1@sea.gmane.org>

Jakub Narebski wrote:
> David Lang wrote:
> 
>> the other factor that was mentioned was that a single-bit corruption in the 
>> dictionary would make the entire pack file useless. if this is really a concern 
>> then just store multiple copies of the dictionary. on a pack with lots of files 
>> in it it can still be a significant win.
> 
> Or use some error-correcting code for storing dictionary.

Error-correcting code?  We have sha1 hash to determine validity...

	Jeff