On Monday, October 12, 2015 at 4:22:08 PM UTC-4, Harry Potter wrote:
> On Monday, October 12, 2015 at 3:29:20 PM UTC-4, Harry Potter wrote:
> > I thank you for mentioning LZSS.  It's *better* than LZW, *and* it's
faster!.  :D  Let me tweak it some more.  I'm good at tweaking.  :)
>
> I fixed a bug and did some tweaking.  Now, it's almost as good as Deflate.  I
plan to add Vitter Adaptive Huffman code.
>
> I also want to know other tweaks I can apply.  I added:
>
> *  An efficiency check: After I find a LZSS match, I check the next two
bytes.  If they have a better match, I compress that way, instead.
> *  I differentiate between small and large LZSS matches.
> *  I use as few bits as possible to write a value.
> *  If a byte is *not* compressed, I only take into account values already
found.

I added a signature technique.  It's *slightly* better on two test files but
back-fires and causes a bug in a third.

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