From: Jamis Buck <jgb3@...>
Date: 2004-01-07T11:37:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Compression (besides Huffman) and Ruby

Josef 'Jupp' SCHUGT wrote:

>Hi!
>
>I don't want to start a lenghty thread about wether that makes sense
>or not. My question is only if such a thing is known to exist. I did
>find Huffman but besides that rei, nada, rien, zero, nichts. Anything
>else (note that the point is *plain* Ruby, no extension). Otherwise I
>will try to implement such an algorithm on my own.
>
>Josef 'Jupp' SCHUGT
>  
>
I've played with the idea of implementing zlib in  pure Ruby... 
unfortunately, I've never got beyond that.  I've got about 30% of a 
working tar implementation, but that's not really compression.  I'd be 
very interested in a pure ruby zlib or bzip2 implementation, if you 
decide to write one. ;)

- Jamis

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