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From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Run-length encoding for image data?
Message-ID: <897@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>
Date: 6 May 88 19:24:16 GMT
References: <2387@uvacs.CS.VIRGINIA.EDU> <9440@sol.ARPA>
Reply-To: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu.UUCP (Russ Nelson)
Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY
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In article <9440@sol.ARPA> ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap) writes:
>|Has anyone successfully implemented a run-length-encoding scheme for
>|compressing pixel information sent to the image operator?  Several attempts
>Ray,
>Have you tried byte level run-length encoding, i.e.
>	00 00 00 00 00 13 13 13 13 24 encoded as 5 * 00, 4 * 13, 24

I don't know about Ray, but I've tried it, and it is indeed slower.  Arrrgh!
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