Re: Transfer time

Brian Behlendorf ([email protected])
Mon, 22 May 1995 15:00:52 -0700 (PDT)


On Mon, 22 May 1995, Nathan J. Strange wrote:
> What I was proposing was a VRML specific compression algorithm
> Since we know what all the commands are, we can achieve very high
> compression, and very fast compression just by mapping the commands to 1 or
> 2 byte sequences ...basically just making the file a binary file instead
> of an ascii file and making the commands enumerated data types

Sounds great. Do a test implementation (one could probably be done in
Perl in a few hours) to show off its benefits (i.e., it's smaller than
gzip'd files, it's faster to decompress and render, etc), and if a
converter were made publicly available it might even be considered for
a standard. Make sure that the compression algorithm does not forbid
future growth of the language, too.

Brian

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