On Thu, 2 Dec 2010 16:29:56 +0200, Yifat Oren wrote:

>
>I was under the impression that for DFDSS DUMP, COMPRESS and HWCOMPRESS are
>synonymous;
>
>Are you saying they are not?
>
>

Yes, they are not synonymous. HWCOMPRESS uses the CMPSC instruction
(dictionary-based compression). COMPRESS uses RLE (run-length encoding).

Norbert Friemel

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