Re: bohe implementation for compression tests

pip install foo is fine; just make sure you put it in your compressor's README, and recover from the import failure semi-gracefully.

Cheers,


On 17/01/2013, at 12:41 PM, Roberto Peon <grmocg@gmail.com> wrote:

> The difference is, well huge, and not only linear, though it arguably could be made to be merely linearly different :)
> 
> Which reminds me, pypi has a module that makes huffman encoding/decoding very cheap (and I'd get to throw away a file).
> Any opinions on using/including it? It'd require getting it installed on machines (on ubuntu, just an apt-get away...)
> -=R
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 5:21 PM, Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 16 January 2013 17:11, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote:
> > Getting there, although you may need a small truck to haul the grain of salt that will accompany it...
> 
> Even if it just means running the sample set n times using 'time', it
> would be nice to get ballpark figures.  Even if the errors are
> enormous.  For instance, a python implementation of delta is probably
> not that good to compare to an optimized gzip implementation, but it
> might still let us know that deltav3 is better than deltav2.
> 
> 

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