Hi all, Roderich Schupp wrote:
Steffen and I independently did some experiments that show that one can roughly half the size by simply storing it zipped (using zlib).
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Fortunately, Compress::Raw::Zlib seems to have succeeded in doing this, so we might just steal their solution. But it's still the part that will consume the most tuits, so don't hold your breadth.
For the record, I won't be able to work on my hacks in the next couple (3-4) weeks at all due to travel. I'll be mostly offline, too. Either way, my attempts were just checking whether there is an existing libz.a to link against. I wasn't even trying to build it myself. If somebody were to try and make it work for real, starting from Roderich's work would be better. Cheers, Steffen
