From: Trans <transfire@...>
Date: 2007-03-20T12:55:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Just for fun...

On Mar 19, 11:15 pm, Clifford Heath <no.s...@please.net> wrote:

> Nuts it may be, but it's the reason why "bzip" compresses tighter
> than deflate (zip, gzip, etc). It does a BWT first, then compresses
> that.

Really? I find that surprising actually. I would not think a sorting
algorithm could lead to any significant compression. It just doesn't
make sense under conservation of information. I assume it's due to
deficiencies in deflate then.

T.