Re: How to access the value that a pointer is pointing to
Re: How to access the value that a pointer is pointing to
- Subject: Re: How to access the value that a pointer is pointing to
- From: Scott Ribe <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 07 May 2006 20:32:26 -0600
- Thread-topic: How to access the value that a pointer is pointing to
> I'm actually writing to programme which will eventually compress
> files into (hopefully!) much smaller files than any other compression
> programme has achieved to date.
There are mathematically provable lower limits, and if you think you can
compress something smaller than PPM statistical compressors, then you are
absolutely wrong. If you think you can get there without rigorous study of
the math involved, then you are probably wrong.
Of course, there are tradeoffs with memory usage and speed, and there may
well be some improvement there which is as yet undiscovered. But the lower
bounds on absolute number of bits required to represent information is a
problem that was solved decades ago. And none of that would necessarily stop
you from having some fun experimenting...
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_compression>
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Scott Ribe
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