Re: Field compression
On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 09:05:46AM -0700, Pete Lypkie wrote:
...
>
> I don't think Edward's intention was to make a new binary file
> format.
>
> If we could take this idea of "customized zipping" for that particular
> file, but not going all the way to bzip2, we could achieve a good
> percentage of the gzip->bzip2 without incurring all of the losses
> involved in doing bzip2.
>
> what if we just have a small script on everyone's system, so that the
> file is not just gunzipped, but also run through the script...
>
> the end result is still the same old file (no new binary formats),
> but the combination of gzip and the magical Ed script would give us
> some compression gains but not as much of the slow-down and memory
> usage that bzip2 has.
I remember similar scheme was proposed some time ago... and a nice flamewar
as a result.
Imagine what happens when e.g. rar maintaineer decides to compress
his package with zip, and
zip package is compressed with rar...
In other words, another set of dependencies to take care of
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