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Subject: Re: Question about Bit storage

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 23:58:19 01/30/02

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On January 30, 2002 at 21:45:45, Ricardo Gibert wrote:
[snip]
>>Maybe 6-men files then.
>
>It takes a ferocious amount of time and resources to generate 6-man. This "idea"
>multiplies" the amount of time required to create them. I too have come up with
>several ideas to increase their compressability, but they too suffer from the
>same problem of requiring an unreasonable amount of time to carry out for the
>bigger databases.
>
>There are probably zillions of ideas that do the same. The problem is finding
>the ones that speed things up rather than slow things down. Those are the ones
>that are hard to come by.
>
>Nalimov is no dummy. He too can think of such ideas. He's the expert and we're
>the amateurs. The other diffence between us and him is he has made his ideas
>work. Not so easy for us, unfortunately :-(

No, I'm not talking about the incredibly bright innovation of building them.
Rather, like some seemy parasite, I would open one of the files that Eugene
built and create the reduced file using that.




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