Re: MD: ATRAC & loseless compression techniques...

[Anthony Lalande]

> 32-64K blocks is the norm for high-level compression these days.  That is
> what bzip2 uses, and boy is it slow even on a fast Pentium-III.  One minute
> of linear PCM is ~8.75MB.  You would need a supercomputer the size of a
> refrigerator to utilize a block size that large.

Well, I can go to sleep tonight feeling that much smarter. Large
pattern-matches and combination-matches are the promise of quantum
supercomputers, but that's another forum altogether.

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