Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!csri.toronto.edu!wayne Newsgroups: comp.os.minix From: wayne@csri.toronto.edu (Wayne Hayes) Subject: Re: Comic Message-ID: <1990Jul11.194445.29200@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto References: <228@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> <946@rossignol.Princeton.EDU> Date: 11 Jul 90 23:44:46 GMT Lines: 16 In article <946@rossignol.Princeton.EDU> nfs@cs.Princeton.EDU (Norbert Schlenker) writes: >In article <228@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> nall@sun8.scri.fsu.edu (John Nall) writes: >On a further related note, one can compile lzhuf.c with -DSELFMAIN >to get a (simpleminded) version which does essentially what compress >does, with much better compression. The C version is about 1/3 as >fast as compress (using PC ACK); a few tweaks to the assembly code >allow it to run only about 50% slower. The LHARC I posted to Minix works also on Sun 4.3. -- "The number of programs that can be done with the HST has always greatly exceeded the time available for their execution, and this remains true even with the telescope in its current state." -- HST Science Working Group and User's Commitee Report, 1990 June 29. Wayne Hayes INTERNET: wayne@csri.utoronto.ca CompuServe: 72401,3525