2 Jan
2025
2 Jan
'25
9:13 p.m.
On 1/2/25 6:40 AM, arnold(a)skeeve.com wrote:
The paper on compressing the dictionary was
interesting. In the day
of 20 meg disks, compressing a ~ 2.5 meg file down to ~ .5 meg is a
big savings.
It's even more important when sending data across the wire.
Was the compressed dictionary put into use? I could
imaging that
spell(1) at least would have needed some library routines to return
a stream of words from it.
I couldn't help but think about the DNS on wire compression format which
will re-use part of the existing query name to de-duplicate later parts
of the same query name.
I know it's not the same, but it felt un-ignorably close in both purpose
and method.
--
Grant. . . .
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