From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 16:55:53 GMT
Subject: Re: Compression and dictionaries
Message-ID: <ebq9tc$3gl$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0608140930380.14796@qynat.qvtvafvgr.pbz>

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.

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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