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- xpkPPMQ.library
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- Beta version 1.0
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- September 23, 1995
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- Copyright (c) 1995 by Charles Bloom
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- contact : cbloom@mail.utexas.edu
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- xpkPPMQ is a high compression libary for use with the xpk
- utilities.
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- It attains higher compression THAN ANY OTHER COMPRESSOR EVER!!!!
- This means it beats X1,ACB, and HA. It also beats PPMD+ and
- Block Sorting.
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- Currently, xpkPPMQ uses a HUGE amount of memory (2 megs minimum,
- usually about 4-8 megs). xpkPPMQ is also very slow (3500 bytes
- per second on an Amiga 3000).
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- For maximum compression, you must use a very large XPK chunk size
- (i.e. the whole file in one chunk, if possible).
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- Technical information:
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- xpkPPMQ uses a PPM Markov Model (Prediction by Partial Match)
- for symbol-wise encoding. An arithmetic encoder is used to
- encode symbols with respect to their predicted probabilities.
- The "PPMQ" method of handling deterministic contexts is used,
- based on "LZP4" research.
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