Subj : Re: data compression on data blocks
To   : comp.programming
From : rossum
Date : Mon Aug 29 2005 11:36 pm

On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 16:05:57 +0100, "David"
<vonarburg.nospam@omnisec.ch> wrote:

>I have to implement a data compression to compress
>a lot of different small data blocks (about 100 to 1000 bytes)
>independend of each other. What are good algorithms to do this?
>Compression must be lossless.
>Thanks in advance
>David
>

Try LZW Compression.  It is a good general purpose lossless
compression algorithm.  If the data is non-random and has no special
properties that would make some other specific algorithm more
efficient then it is the one to go for.

See http://www.dogma.net/markn/articles/lzw/lzw.htm

rossum



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