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From: jaw@riacs.edu (James A. Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: function "prratio()" in sources to BSD compress
Message-ID: <1990Jun7.184525.962@riacs.edu>
Date: 7 Jun 90 18:45:25 GMT
References: <1990Jun7.023616.25034@athena.mit.edu>
Organization: RIACS, NASA Ames Research Center
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good eye.
the original was floating point, like your suggestion, and
i wrote it knowing the floats were not a cpu drain.

it was changed by ken turkowski (still of apple?) to accomodate
a pdp 11 without floating point hardware.

i agree that it should revert to floating point.

better yet would be to speedup dan bernstein's 'squeeze',
a miller/wegman/ziv/lempel coder which has better c-rates. 

ames!jaw