From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Painlessly shrinking kernel messages (Re: kernel support for non-english user messages)
Date: 11 Apr 2003 02:14:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1050023659.13456.2.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E960536.5010900@techsource.com>
On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 00:58, Timothy Miller wrote:
> My google search for '5pack' didn't come up with anything relevant.
> Things that come to mind include converting to a character set which
Its a thing from the old 8bit gaming world. You code in 5bit chunks
with a leading length marker. 5bits is enough for a-z and some bits
of punctuation, plus capital implying space and 'escape' for an 8bit
sequence block.
Gets you a bit under 40% compression with real life data and takes about
200 bytes to decode
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-11 2:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-10 22:08 Timothy Miller
2003-04-10 21:42 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-10 23:58 ` Timothy Miller
2003-04-11 1:14 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2003-04-11 23:02 ` Timothy Miller
2003-04-11 23:03 ` David Lang
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