14 Aug
2006
14 Aug
'06
12:31 p.m.
On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 09:49:16AM -0700, Chuck Guzis wrote:
In any case, the LZW patent is now firmly ensconced in
history and should
not be a reason to avoid a particular compressed format.
...with the exception that LZW was never very efficient to begin
with. :-) LZ77 variants (specifically LZSS and its variants) have always
outperformed LZ78 variants like LZW.
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