Andres -

>>>Just wondering about this... exactly what speed is high-speed? Is it 
>>>100kb/sec? More? Less? What algorithm did you implement?
>
>>Display bits size*4 ==> 1443456
>>Display bits compressToByteArray size ==> 149902
>>Time millisecondsToRun: [10 timesRepeat: [Display bits 
>compressToByteArray]] ==> 1179
>>So it's compressing 1.4MB by nearly a factor of 10 in under .12 seconds, a 
>throughput of around 12MB/sec.  This is on a 180MHz Mac 8600.  Expansion is 
>naturally a little faster.
>
>1179 ms = 1s 179ms... '1.2' permutateAtRandom... 
>
>Anyway, it crunches about 1.2mb/sec... 

I should have said 14MB.  Did you notice, my timing was for running it 10 times?   It really is 12MB/sec!

	- Dan