Srsly. -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)
On Mar 26, 2009, at 18:21, Ilmari Karonen <[email protected]> wrote: > Brion Vibber wrote: >> On 3/26/09 12:30 PM, Ilmari Karonen wrote: >>> The Wikipedia article (what else?) on the format says the blocks are >>> padded to byte boundaries, and some quick testing seems to support >>> that. >> >> That is a filthy lie. :) >> >> There is indeed no byte padding between blocks; it made my >> implementation of a parallel bzip2 compressor much harder and I never >> got round to finishing the decompressor. > > You're right, I misread it. Only the whole stream is padded. :( > > (In my defense, that seems like such a moronic design choice that I > couldn't believe it could be true. If you're going to waste 48 bits > per > block on pi-in-BCD anyway, it seems silly to skimp on the 4 bits of > per > block that'd be needed on average to pad to a byte boundary.) > > -- > Ilmari Karonen > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
