[A83] Re: Is compression possible?
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[A83] Re: Is compression possible?
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> The exprience on the TI-86 would seem to suggest that compression is
> feasible. For the TI-86, there are already (at least) two compression
> programs: Lite86 II (which only decompresses on-calc) and Bloat (which
> has an on-calc compressor as well). The decompression code is only a few
> dozen bytes. Even programs that are only a few kilobytes in size can be
> made substantially smaller if they made into auto-extracting compressed
> programs. Since the program runs as normal, this is no problem for users.
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> Since the TI-83 Plus has more memory than a TI-86, programs for it should
> be expected to (one way or another) end up larger than the TI-86
> equivalents, and thus even more suitable for compression. Of course this
> might not be the case for the regular TI-83, where not only do programs
> have to be smaller, but you can't really find a lot of temporary storage
> to use.
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Those programs used very large buffers (16k+) to compress and decompress
things (which is a nice thing about the 86). I was talking to Kirk Meyer
about this very subject and he was pretty sure that implementing the
compression algorithm from lite86 at least would not be feasible on the 83+.
The 83se, however, has those extra ram pages that could be used.
- -Joe
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