[TUHS] Was the compressed dictionary used?

[Grant Taylor via TUHS]

On 1/2/25 6:40 AM, arnold at skeeve.com wrote:
> The paper on compressing the dictionary was interesting. In the day 
> of 20 meg disks, compressing a ~ 2.5 meg file down to ~ .5 meg is a 
> big savings.

It's even more important when sending data across the wire.

> Was the compressed dictionary put into use? I could imaging that 
> spell(1) at least would have needed some library routines to return 
> a stream of words from it.

I couldn't help but think about the DNS on wire compression format which 
will re-use part of the existing query name to de-duplicate later parts 
of the same query name.

I know it's not the same, but it felt un-ignorably close in both purpose 
and method.



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Grant. . . .
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