From: Ryan Leavengood <mrcode@...>
Date: 2001-10-30T06:27:54+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23755] Re: Some inspirations from REBOL

> No compression at all. The BWT algorithm only restructures input data
> to data with less entrophy, so that RLE works quite well on this.

Oh OK.  So you're probably doing loop upon loop sorting through the
data?  Probably also creating a lot of new objects that die quickly,
making the GC work hard.  I don't think this is a good indication of the
speed we would get with Ruby compression libraries.  Also decompression
is done a lot more than compression and decompression is generally much
faster than compression.  But we won't really know until we try.

Ryan Leavengood