[TUHS] Was the compressed dictionary used?

[arnold at skeeve.com]

Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy at dartmouth.edu> wrote:

> My production spell aggresively stripped
> affixes and used hashing and other coding tricks to keep its
> "dictionary" in the limited memory of a PDP-11. (The whole story is
> told in https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~doug/spell.pdf and insightfully
> described by Jon Bentley in
> https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3532.315102.) When larger memory
> became available, these heroics were replaced by basic common-prefix
> coding patterned after Morris and Thompson, just as Arnold surmised.

But all this would have been in the C code for spell, and not in
the dictionary used, right?

Thanks,

Arnold

P.S. A few years ago I made the v10 spell available for today's systems,
see https://github.com/arnoldrobbins/v10spell.