Author: Joshua Shriver
Date: 08:33:55 08/15/05
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Interesting read. Thanks for the reply sir. By chance has there been any thought about setting up a BT site for the TB's? At least for the 6men? > > >There is a big problem. Suppose you want to read the byte displaced >1,000,000,000 from the beginning. Serial compression requires serial >decompression, reading and decompressing all the data before the byte you want, >so you can recognize the byte you want. > >The EGTB compression uses "blocks" so that we can read in a single block from >anywhere in the file, and just have to decompress that block, rather than all >the preceeding data. You can make the blocksize bigger to improve the >compression, but it costs you at decompression time, which is, unfortunately, >right in the middle of your tree search. NPS goes into the toilet. > >When we started this stuff, I ran a _bunch_ of tests for Eugene to choose the >best compression blocksize from a tree-search vs compression efficiency point of >view...
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