From: "Brian Schröder" <ruby.brian@...>
Date: 2005-06-10T05:06:46+09:00
Subject: Re: [SUMMARY] Whiteout (#34)

> [Snip] 
> Obviously, a conversion of this type grossly inflates the size of the source.
> Around eight times the size, to be exact.  A couple of solutions used zlib to
> control the expansion, which I thought was clever.  By compressing the source
> and then encoding() (and using a base three conversion) Dominik Bathom got
> results around three times the inflation instead.

Using a base eight encoding plus zipping you can even reach a
deflation of source-length. See
http://ruby.brian-schroeder.de/quiz/whiteout/

regards and thanks for the summary,

Brian


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