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Subject: Re: EGTB - dumb questions?

Author: Pham Minh Tri

Date: 22:02:51 08/06/01

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>>4) Could someone explain the technique of compressing TBs (how good/fast, what
>>kind and how different from normal one)?
>>Many thanks in advance.
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>Pretty similar to normal compression.  But if you know you are compressing
>bytes, particularly when you have lots of "zeroes" (draw scores) then you can
>compress more efficiently than if you are trying to compress other types of
>data (say ASCII which has many zero bits).

But normal compression is required to de-compress before use. In other hand, I
know that we could use compressed TBs when computing. Maybe we need a more
efficient method (fast or partly de-compress) for TBs?



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