On 9/6/06, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Is there any way to get zlib to just generate a suggested dictionary from a given set of input?
No, I asked the author. Apparently it is a hard problem, there have been research papers written about it. Shawn has a Perl script that makes a guess at a dictionary. That scripts gets 4-7% improvement. The number one thing that ended up in the Mozilla dictionary was the five different license versions that had each been copied into 50,000 files over time. I think what happens in practice is that when people get to the point of trying to optimize zlib dictionaries they switch compression methods. -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@xxxxxxxxx - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html