Re: Compression algorithm NOT(?) looking for repetitions - Question

Claudio wrote:
) Is any of the known compression algorithms NOT hunting after repetitions of
) patterns in the data it compresses, or are all known algorithms only various
) ways of doing the same thing i.e. using different methods of looking for and
) utilizing repetitions of same or similar data patterns?

There are a lot of crackpot compression algorithms like that, yes. There
are even two patents (or maybe more) on such algorithms. Problem is that
none of them actually work.


Technically, a lot of real compressors also look for which patterns occur
more than others and use that to compress, I'm not sure if you're counting
that in your question. It is quite similar to looking for repetetetive
patterns.


SaSW, Willem
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