The net effect will be to decrease the effect of the downstream compressor, but I would still expect the final result to be a bit smaller with upstream improvements in representation. Speed will be better with the better representations if only because the downstream compressor will have to deal with fewer bytes which means fewer bytes copied around.
On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Sean Owen <sro...@gmail.com> wrote: > My gut says it's not a step too far to implement variable-length > encoding. It's a transformation that mostly chops out zero bytes, > which only aids later compression. It's not as if it's a > transformation that then compresses worse. >
