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Re: Lowercase compresses better?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (staym@accessdata.com)
Fri Sep 29 18:15:15 2000
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Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 13:57:17 -0600
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It would be true if they used a fixed set of huffman codes for which
lower case letters had shorter codes; this is reasonable if you're
compressing large amounts of text, since most of it is lowercase.
--
Mike Stay
Programmer / Crypto guy
AccessData Corp.
staym@accessdata.com
