From: Michael Neumann <neumann@...>
Date: 2001-10-30T06:08:29+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23752] Re: Some inspirations from REBOL

Paul Brannan wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Michael Neumann wrote:
> 
> > Well, I did not spent much time with optimizing it. But compressing a
> > 5.3 MB large file with a blocksize of 4000 bytes using BWT (without any
> > other compression algorithm like RLE) took on my PC (Athlon 1000) 9 min.
> 
> Perhaps it would be worthwhile to profile the program anf implement the
> most commonly called functions in C.
> 
> This way, there are no dependencies on external libs, but speed remains
> reasonable.

Sure, but it was only a "just for fun" implementation to better understand
how the algorithm works.

Regards,

  Michael

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