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From: les@unicads.UUCP (Les Milash)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: SPEC Bench-a-Thon
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Date: 23 Jun 89 15:52:53 GMT
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In article <5297@pt.cs.cmu.edu> jps@cat.cmu.edu (James Salsman) writes:
>The composition of any compression algorithm with its self
                    ^^^
>can not do better than a single application of the algorithm.

you mean "any good", right? :-)


how bout generating a file with pseudorandom numbers.  
you could take your chances with srand, or deliver your own.
that's so obvious it must be wrong, or unacceptably risky, huh?