<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> Hi Folks, Following the advices of Michael, I pushed these to the master: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/bootstrap/commit/?id=3fdf828b833f04f115a0f3d99aa8b1221f0365db">http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/bootstrap/commit/?id=3fdf828b833f04f115a0f3d99aa8b1221f0365db</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/components/commit/?id=03b720f9be65745ce3ec8115f733e792f03c5814">http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/components/commit/?id=03b720f9be65745ce3ec8115f733e792f03c5814</a> I hope it is OK for all of us. Maybe it can be useful for -3-3 and -3-3-2 too. Cheers, KAMI 2011-03-01 11:04 keltezéssel, Michael Meeks írta: <blockquote cite="mid:1298973852.29020.14.camel@lenovo-w500" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Hi Wols, On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 00:21 +0000, Wols Lists wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I checked on wikipedia after I posted and Huffman is actually SIXTY years old! Set as a class project, and published in 1952. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> I tried to gently correct your thesis that Huffman is -the- optimal compression algorithm for all things; it may be for a specific symbol-by-symbol case, but in real-world use cases it can clearly be improved on. In my (contrived) case the "save as a perl script" gives a massive compression advantage, QED. </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">So zip should be tricky to beat for compression if it actually uses Huffman, although I would expect it to take ages. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Again - wikipedia states so, my experience says so - why don't you think it does ? :-) ATB, Michael. </pre> </blockquote> <div class="moz-signature">-- <meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title>Szalai Kálmán</title> <pre wrap=""><img alt="KAMI911" title="KAMI911" src="cid:part1.02070302.05030706@gmail.com" style="border: 0px solid; width: 178px; height: 178px;" hspace="4" vspace="2" align="left">Best regards, Kálmán „KAMI” Szalai | 神 | kami911 [at] gmail [dot] com My favorite projects: <a href="http://ooop.sf.net/">OxygenOffice Professional</a> - office suite - for everybody | <a href="http://hun.sf.net/">Magyarul</a> - In Hungarian <a href="http://bit.ly/10ucTR">Blog</a> | <a href="http://bit.ly/eYZO6">Support</a> <a href="http://bit.ly/gJuJZ">Follow me</a>, if <a href="http://bit.ly/kDocB">you can</a> </pre> </div> </body> </html>