From kde-devel Thu Mar 25 16:11:33 2010 From: John Tapsell Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:11:33 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: Re: New Compression System Message-Id: <43d8ce651003250911o71ffef4dx74e55bc5585bb03f () mail ! gmail ! com> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=126953359427369 On 26 March 2010 01:00, Charles Wehner wrote: > Thanks for your reply. > > I am not a beginner. Time DOES matter. I am busy with other important work. > The benefits are shown on http://wehner.org/compress . A small poster took > 1500 bytes as compared with 2130 on GIF. How was this found out? I can't make heads-nor-tails of your website. Do you have an actual implementation then? > I had Kernigan and Richie's C. I have studied C, and many, many other > languages. > I repeat what I was saying, because I cannot say it better. I need the > "shell" into which to plug my machine code. You don't need machine code. You don't need a gui, or anything else. You need an implementation written in c++, python, or whatever, that simply takes a file and outputs the compressed format. Then we can compare the algorithm against real photos and see how it performs. > Thanks again for your sensible reply, but please look at the page I quoted. > It shows that the system has actually been researched and written up in the > most entertaining and clear way I, as a long-in-the-tooth techincal author > can manage. A few lines of code are worth million lines of text. John >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<