From: Mats Petersson <mats.petersson@citrix.com>
To: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>
Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xen.org" <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>
Subject: Re: xen with huffman coding
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 16:34:48 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50CB5528.2020203@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CCF103FE.55C40%keir@xen.org>
On 14/12/12 16:27, Keir Fraser wrote:
> On 14/12/2012 14:49, "Mats Petersson" <mats.petersson@citrix.com> 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.
--
Mats
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> -- Keir
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-14 16:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-14 14:32 xen with huffman coding digvijay chauhan
2012-12-14 14:49 ` Mats Petersson
2012-12-14 16:27 ` Keir Fraser
2012-12-14 16:34 ` Mats Petersson [this message]
2012-12-14 17:19 ` Keir Fraser
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