Need a Faster Compressor

[Era Scarecrow via Digitalmars-d]

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).