Author : Michael Burrows
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Book Synopsis A Block-sorting Lossless Data Compression Algorithm by : Michael Burrows
Download or read book A Block-sorting Lossless Data Compression Algorithm written by Michael Burrows and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: "We describe a block-sorting, lossless data compression algorithm, and our implementation of that algorithm. We compare the performance of our implementation with widely available data compressors running on the same hardware. The algorithm works by applying a reversible transformation to a block of input text. The tranformation does not itself compress the data, but reorders it to make it easy to compress with simple algorithms such as move-to-front coding. Our algorithm achieves speed comparable to algorithms based on the techniques of Lempel and Ziv, but obtains compression close to the best statistical modelling techniques. The size of the input block must be large (a few kilobytes) to achieve good compression."