Harry Potter schreef:
On May 23, 4:33 pm, "Leif Bloomquist" <s...@127.0.0.600> wrote:Are you planning on implementing lossy compression? That would certainly give your approach an edge over the others.What's lossy compression?
A compression method which after you decompress don't get the original data back. Well known examples of lossy compression algorithms are MP3, JPEG and MPEG. Of course lossy compression algorithms can only be applied on data that can tolerate to be 'distorted', like audio, images and video; you can't compress programs with a lossy compression algorithm and expect to be able run them after decompressing. Also a lossy compression algorithm only works on the kind of data (audio, image, video) it designed for, it won't work on any other kind of data.
BTW, I just enhanced my compressor. It did *better* than WinRAR in maximum mode on every file tested but one.
On what kind of files did you test?