[A83] Re: Is compression possible?
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[A83] Re: Is compression possible?
Patrick Davidson wrote:
> The Lite86 decompression code from the TI-86 (which would also run on a
> TI-83+) is only about 50 bytes in size. So unless the compression
> decreases a program's size by less than 50 bytes, the self-extracting
> compressed program would be smaller. And even if the gain is small,
> giving output that is 80% of the original, that could still make the
> difference between being able to have 25 games on your TI-83+ versus only
> 20 without it.
Wow! Do you know which algorithm it uses? I wrote a simple LZSS decompressor
which weighed in at just under 200 bytes (not really optimized, tho).
A compressor, OTOH, would certainly be a quite bit larger.
I'll see if I can squeeze a few more bytes out of my program :P
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