[gameprogrammer] Re: Lossless data compression
- From: Stephane Marchesin <stephane.marchesin@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: gameprogrammer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 02:21:25 +0200
Kevin Jenkins wrote:
>I'm currently using the huffman encoding algorithm for compression in my
>networking engine. However, I'd like something that compresses a bit
>better. I read about a lossless compression algorithm that used floating
>point that was supposed to be even better but can't remember.
>
>Anyone knows what this is?
>
You're probably thinking about arithmetic coding (but don't expect too
much from it when compared to huffman).
If you want to improve compresison significantly, you might also want to
use a first pass to encode redundancies (like RLE or lempel-ziv or ...).
Stephane
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