| Current Forum: Homework 4 - Huffman Trees (Part 1) |
| Date: Wed Oct 10 2001 9:16 pm |
| Author: Cipriani, Jason A. <jac4@andrew.cmu.edu> |
| Subject: Re: file to store compressed data |
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my file was like this:
2 Bytes: 'CH' - marks this file as a compressed file
4 Bytes: Original file length
? Bits : Huffman tree
? Bits : Compressed data
is this a bad (as in, lose points for it) thing to do? it has the effect of increasing the file size of a "stored" file by 6 bytes. although this defeats the purpose of "compressing" certain files, even a decent, widely used file format like ZIP files can inflate if the only file in them is stored, not compressed.
-jason |
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