[5112] in Athena Bugs
more on prratio() from one of the authors of compress
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Thu Jun 7 18:02:12 1990
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 90 18:02:02 -0400
From: Jonathan I. Kamens <jik@PIT-MANAGER.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In article <1990Jun7.184525.962@riacs.edu>, jaw@riacs.edu (James A.
Woods) writes:
|> good eye.
|> the original was floating point, like your suggestion, and
|> i wrote it knowing the floats were not a cpu drain.
|>
|> it was changed by ken turkowski (still of apple?) to accomodate
|> a pdp 11 without floating point hardware.
|>
|> i agree that it should revert to floating point.
|>
|> better yet would be to speedup dan bernstein's 'squeeze',
|> a miller/wegman/ziv/lempel coder which has better c-rates.
|>
|> ames!jaw
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