laziness, impatience, and hubris | |
PerlMonks |
Re: Efficient 7bit compressionby QM (Parson) |
on Mar 15, 2005 at 00:06 UTC ( [id://439504]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Does it make any sense to incorporate several approaches, and make the system adaptive?
Let's say we've done some benchmarking (which I haven't), and I have these systems, breakpoints and savings (negative is space saved): Now, the first 2 bits (or byte, if plain) indicates which system is being used. Note that the plain text system suffers because of the overhead of the leading indicator. Would a system like this work? What would the breakpoints be? Is it worthwhile to combine any elements together? Or is it the case that benchmarking should be used to find the system that gives the best performance on the typical data, and stick with that? -QM
In Section
Seekers of Perl Wisdom
|
|