[ALLY] Re: Compresssion
From: rryost:home at: 17-Apr-2001 11:06
This has been an interesting discussion, but compressing by large ratios
depends on the amount of "information" in the source file. As an extreme,
consider a photo of President Lincoln. Nearly everyone remembers such a
photograph, so how much "information" is there in a photo file of the
photograph? Not very many bits would be needed to drag the picture from
ones memory! If the source file is pure random, and you want to recover the
exact sequence of 1's and 0's from the compressed file, I'm pretty sure it
wont compress much!
This is not to put doubt on Tretter's work. Many visual/audio files have
little info and can compress by large ratios, in principle.
Russell [rryost--home--com]
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Tretter" <[ptretter--norcom2000--com]>
To: "[Ally-List--Rebol--Com]" <[ally-list--rebol--com]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 7:47 AM
Subject: [ALLY] Compresssion
> I finally found a way to compress a 650meg file to under 2k. Hope to have
working program in REBOL/View/Pro 1.1. As soon as we get runtime and
additionally license information, I hope to distribute the program. So how
many CD's would you like to carry around with you on a floppy disk? :) Some
of you guys from the IRC REBOL channel know I have been working on that for
some time - thanks for your input these last few months.
