Subject: Re: A look at some alternative PACK file encodings

From: Shawn Pearce <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 01:21:56 -0400

Jon Smirl <[email-masked]> wrote:
> Shawn is doing some prototype work on true dictionary based
> compression. I don't know how far along he is but it has potential for
> taking 30% off the Mozilla pack.

Not very far.  I've put some work into it but got distracted by the
sliding mmap window bit.  So I don't have anything worth sharing yet.
Which is why I've been quiet on the subject.  :-)

-- 
Shawn.