Need a Faster Compressor

[Marco Leise via Digitalmars-d]

Am Sun, 22 May 2016 09:57:20 +0000
schrieb Era Scarecrow <rtcvb32 at yahoo.com>:

> On Sunday, 22 May 2016 at 09:48:32 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote:
> > Nice results.  
> 
>   This is with one sample to test against. I need a much bigger 
> sample, but I'm not sure how to generate/find it to give it a 
> full run for it's money. Not to mention there's a huge memory 
> leak while doing the tests since I'm trying not to have 
> malloc/free in the code results as much as possible.
> 
>   Although with a 30%-40% boost it might be enough to be good 
> enough, and has minimal code changes.
> 
> 
>   Question Walter (or Andrei): Would it be terrible to have lower 
> characters as part of the identifier string? I'm referring to 
> characters under 32 (control characters, especially the \r, \n 
> and \t).

That would be my question, too. What is the allowed alphabet?
Control characters might break output of debuggers, and spaces
would also look confusing. So I guess everything in the range
[33..127] (95 symbols)?

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Marco