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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.compression
Subject: Re: A brief compression bibliography
Message-ID: <6125:Apr115:32:2091@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 1 Apr 91 15:32:20 GMT
Article-I.D.: kramden.6125:Apr115:32:2091
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In article <1991Apr1.160910.20547@kcbbs> Peter_Gutmann@kcbbs.gen.nz (Peter Gutmann) writes:
>  1. Static coding:   Uses fixed tables for coding/decoding.  
>  2. Dynamic coding:  Makes one pass to build up tables, second pass to encode.
>  3. Adaptive coding: Adapts to the data as it is processed.  

At least BWC use ``semiadaptive'' for 2. ``Dynamic'' is too useful in
other contexts.

---Dan