Re: Employing a set of data files guaranteed to be available at the time of decompression

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From	Willem <willem@turtle.stack.nl>
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Subject	Re: Employing a set of data files guaranteed to be available at the time of decompression
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Jim Leonard wrote:
) On Monday, September 3, 2012 9:03:14 PM UTC-5, David wrote:
)> In particular, gzip has a sliding window of 32KB, and bzip2 has a sliding window of 900KB.
)
) To clarify, bzip2 has a 900KB block size, not a 900KB sliding window.
) Each block is independent, which was by design as the author wanted file
) damage to be limited to the area of damage, and not bork everything from
) that point forward.

The fact that each block is independent is inherent in the underlying
algorithm (block-sorting).

The choice for 900KB was a bit arbitrary, it seems.


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Re: Employing a set of data files guaranteed to be available at the time of decompression David <davidcary2@gmail.com> - 2012-09-03 19:03 -0700
  Re: Employing a set of data files guaranteed to be available at the time of decompression Industrial One <industrial_one@hotmail.com> - 2012-09-09 09:23 -0700
  Re: Employing a set of data files guaranteed to be available at the time of decompression Jim Leonard <MobyGamer@gmail.com> - 2012-09-18 14:25 -0700
    Re: Employing a set of data files guaranteed to be available at the time of decompression Willem <willem@turtle.stack.nl> - 2012-09-19 08:54 +0000

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