ext/huffman
| From: | Docuverse.de) | Date: | Fri, 13 Aug 2004 05:41:55 +0000 |
| Subject: | ext/huffman | ||
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Hello Devs,
just wanted to aks if ext/huffman is okay for my extension.
For your information:
Huffman compression belongs into a family of algorithms with
a variable codeword length. That means that individual symbols
(characters in a text file for instance) are replaced by bit
sequences that have a distinct length. So symbols that occur
a lot in a file are given a short sequence while other that
are used seldom get a longer bit sequence. Huffman Compression
is about 50 years old and is used in various formats
such as GIF, Jpeg and Zip.
Ah, one thing left. Is there a special PECL account necessary or
is my PEAR account the same than a PECL account from the
technical point of view?
Regards,
Markus