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Author Topic: Zaine's review of Compression Tools is cited in an excellent book on Compression  (Read 15169 times)

mouser

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Wow now this is pretty cool.

Zaine's review of Compression Tools is quoted and cited in an excellent book on Compression:

Data Compression: The Complete Reference (Hardcover)
by David Salomon (Author), G. Motta (Contributor), D. Bryant (Contributor)
4th edition, 2006

http://www.amazon.co...alomon/dp/1846286026

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« Last Edit: December 06, 2008, 01:08 AM by mouser »

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That's pretty damn awesome!

How'd you learn of this?
- carpe noctem

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google.  actually it was one of google's annoying tricks -- where the google robot will index a pdf on a site due to having special access to content.  when i went to the google result page the stuff was no where to be found.  luckily i found in on amazon. com which is wonderful.

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that is cool.

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Congratulations, Zaine  :Thmbsup: This is exciting news   8)

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That's awesome!

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Congratulation Zaine!  :Thmbsup:

I would like this book - could be interesting. But some people wrote in reviews its not diving deep enough into the algorithms. A long time ago there were some revolutionary big new inventions about fractal compression - why aren´t there any till now?
About 15 years ago I  had a new (and unbelievable simple) idea to create a Crunch-Optimizer as a previous pass before others. I included it in my Democruncher and it was often significantly better than LHA that was the best one at this time. I wonder how it would effect nowadays compressors like 7Zip? After Cryptonizer there could be enough time to make another small NANY entry.
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I would like this book - could be interesting. But some people wrote in reviews its not diving deep enough into the algorithms. A long time ago there were some revolutionary big new inventions about fractal compression - why aren´t there any till now?
Because nobody ever mad it run fast enough that it would be a feasible method to use? If only compression had been that slow, perhaps it would be viable, but iirc decompression is as slow as compression?
- carpe noctem

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Thanks guys, I rarely visit this section. One of you guys needs to update that review or write a new one. It's showing its age!