[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] xen with huffman coding
On 14/12/2012 16:34, "Mats Petersson" <mats.petersson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 14/12/12 16:27, Keir Fraser wrote: >> On 14/12/2012 14:49, "Mats Petersson" <mats.petersson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> For code and typical data, I'm not at all convinced that huffman >>> encoding (which is based on run-lengths) is the best method. >> Actually Huffman encoding is not a run-length scheme. > Ah, I'm confusing it with ccitt (or whatever it is that fax-machines > use), which uses a fixed Huffman tree to encode a set of run lengths of > black/white pixels. > > Either way, looking at more than one compression mechanism may have some > value. Yes it was a minor point really, and noone really uses Huffman on its own afaik. More broadly I agree -- it looks like an interesting student project. > -- > Mats >> >> -- Keir >> >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
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