Re: [Libreoffice] Windows installer size reduction effort - the compression theory

Title: Szalai Kálmán

Hi Folks,

Following the advices of Michael, I pushed these to the master:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/bootstrap/commit/?id=3fdf828b833f04f115a0f3d99aa8b1221f0365db
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/components/commit/?id=03b720f9be65745ce3ec8115f733e792f03c5814

I hope it is OK for all of us.

Maybe it can be useful for -3-3 and -3-3-2 too.

Cheers,
KAMI

2011-03-01 11:04 keltezéssel, Michael Meeks írta:

Hi Wols,

On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 00:21 +0000, Wols Lists wrote:

I checked on wikipedia after I posted and Huffman is actually SIXTY
years old! Set as a class project, and published in 1952.

	I tried to gently correct your thesis that Huffman is -the- optimal
compression algorithm for all things; it may be for a specific
symbol-by-symbol case, but in real-world use cases it can clearly be
improved on. In my (contrived) case the "save as a perl script" gives a
massive compression advantage, QED.

So zip should be tricky to beat for compression if it actually uses
Huffman, although I would expect it to take ages.

	Again - wikipedia states so, my experience says so - why don't you
think it does ? :-)

	ATB,

		Michael.

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