Re: [Xen-devel] xen with huffman coding

[Mats Petersson <mats.petersson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 14/12/12 16:27, Keir Fraser wrote:
> On 14/12/2012 14:49, "Mats Petersson" <mats.petersson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > For code and typical data, I'm not at all convinced that huffman
> > encoding (which is based on run-lengths) is the best method.
> Actually Huffman encoding is not a run-length scheme.
Ah, I'm confusing it with ccitt (or whatever it is that fax-machines 
use), which uses a fixed Huffman tree to encode a set of run lengths of 
black/white pixels.
Either way, looking at more than one compression mechanism may have some 
value.
--
Mats
>   -- Keir

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