Re: PM3 slower than PM2 (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@livingston.com)
Sat, 26 Apr 1997 17:16:23 -0700 (PDT)

Once upon a time jrg@acm.org shaped the electrons to say...
>My only real concern, as you say you're working on the compression
>dictionary size code, is why you ever didn't pick 2048 in the first
>place.

Same reason we didn't have 33.6 to start.

We had to start somewhere, and establish a solid working baseline. So
some things were kept simple, compression was one of the things that
was. The code in the very latest (non-public, so don't ask) beta builds
has a 2048 dictionary.

-MZ

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