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From: johng@cavs.syd.dwt.oz (John Gardner)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: SPEC Bench-a-Thon
Message-ID: <822@cavs.syd.dwt.oz>
Date: 28 Jun 89 00:04:58 GMT
References: <22031@abbott.mips.COM> <22033@abbott.mips.COM> <670@biar.UUCP> <671@biar.UUCP> <5297@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: johng@cavs.UUCP (John Gardner)
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In article <5297@pt.cs.cmu.edu> jps@cat.cmu.edu (James Salsman) writes:
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>The composition of any compression algorithm with its self
>can not do better than a single application of the algorithm.
>
Not so.  I have seen repeated compression succeed in further compressing files
Although any algorithim that this is true for should of course be expanded to
say that it repeatably applys itself until it gets no further compression.


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