Need a Faster Compressor

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 5/21/2016 2:27 PM, Era Scarecrow wrote:
> I assume this is related to compressing symbols thread?

Yes.


> I mentioned possibly considering the LZO library.

Give it a try, see if it pans out.

Other possibilities are the lookback dictionary is fixed at 1023 characters. 
Experimenting and benchmarking can indicate if it should be more or less. 
Perhaps 512 will yield just as good compression on real world identifier strings.

Or try another scheme entirely, like huffman coding.