Xref: utzoo news.software.b:5122 news.admin:9999 Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.admin Path: utzoo!utstat!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!utgpu!watserv1!maytag!looking!brad From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) Subject: Re: Cnews batching & 16 bit compress Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd. Date: Thu, 12 Jul 90 17:22:56 GMT Message-ID: <1990Jul12.172256.7363@looking.on.ca> References: <1990Jul09.170549.22946@nstar.uucp> <1990Jul10.153613.10971@zoo.toronto.edu> <1990Jul11.150319.1932@chinet.chi.il.us> 16 bit compress does indeed eat memory like a pig, BUT, if I remember correctly, the compress program that everybody uses eats up the same amount of memory no matter how many codes you tell it to use. It's a big hash table, and if you pick 12 bit (4096 codes) you still get a 400K table, it's just very sparse -- and thus has fewer collisions. To save memory with a 12 or 13 bit compress, you have to COMPILE it again with a hard limit on the number of bits. Using the option is not enough. -- Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473