Cheap updates

Dan Ingalls Dan.Ingalls at disney.com
Tue Jun 6 18:38:01 UTC 2000


"Richard A. O'Keefe" <ok at atlas.otago.ac.nz> wrote:
>What would happen, for example, if the compression dictionary were
>"primed" with class and instance variable names before compressing
>each method?

It helps a bit, but I don't think it's really worth the added complexity.  See compressWithTable: and senders for a couple of experiments.  I got the best (and slowest) results by doing this first and then gzipping.

	- Dan






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