Re: [colorforth] shifted huffman trees

[Mark Slicker <maslicke@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, John R. Strohm wrote:

>
> If what you are trying to compress is English text, then you use English text to
> build your Huffman tree.  If what you are trying to compress is FORTH source,
> then you should be using FORTH source to build your tree.  A Huffman tree that
> is optimal for English may or may not be optimal for FORTH.
>

It is not really an either or situation for colorForth. Documentation is
encoded in same format. And the Huffman tree is fixed.


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