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Re: Words as well as characters as encoding units

From Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de>
Newsgroups comp.compression
Subject Re: Words as well as characters as encoding units
Date 2012-05-05 23:52 +0200
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Am 05.05.2012 23:29, schrieb glen herrmannsfeldt:

> I don't know of any specific reference. The usual LZW uses 16 bit
> codes, for a 65536 entry table. When the table is full, it throws
> away all the table entries and starts a new one.

My layman's impression could certainly be wrong. But to me this seems
to be that LZW normally attempts to find as much correlations between
words as possible, which to a large part might actually not be
profitable work in practice.

M. K. Shen

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Words as well as characters as encoding units Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2012-05-05 10:26 +0200
  Re: Words as well as characters as encoding units James Dow Allen <jdallen2000@yahoo.com> - 2012-05-05 02:41 -0700
    Re: Words as well as characters as encoding units Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2012-05-05 15:06 +0200
      Re: Words as well as characters as encoding units Thomas Richter <thor@math.tu-berlin.de> - 2012-05-05 17:05 +0200
        Re: Words as well as characters as encoding units Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2012-05-05 19:42 +0200
          Re: Words as well as characters as encoding units glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2012-05-05 18:33 +0000
            Re: Words as well as characters as encoding units Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2012-05-05 21:22 +0200
              Re: Words as well as characters as encoding units Thomas Richter <thor@math.tu-berlin.de> - 2012-05-05 21:31 +0200
                Re: Words as well as characters as encoding units Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2012-05-05 22:19 +0200
              Re: Words as well as characters as encoding units glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2012-05-05 20:17 +0000
                Re: Words as well as characters as encoding units Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2012-05-05 22:36 +0200
                Re: Words as well as characters as encoding units glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2012-05-05 21:29 +0000
                Re: Words as well as characters as encoding units Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2012-05-05 23:52 +0200
                Re: Words as well as characters as encoding units Niels Fröhling <spamtrap@adsignum.com> - 2012-05-08 00:42 -0600
                Re: Words as well as characters as encoding units glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2012-05-08 08:19 +0000
                Re: Words as well as characters as encoding units Niels Fröhling <spamtrap@adsignum.com> - 2012-05-09 15:14 -0600
                Re: Words as well as characters as encoding units James Dow Allen <jdallen2000@yahoo.com> - 2012-05-09 22:17 -0700

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