On Friday 02 January 2009 22:23:13 Stephen R. van den Berg wrote:
> Three things:
> a. Shouldn't it in theory be possible to have a decompression algorithm
> which is IO-bound because it decompresses faster than the disk can
> supply the data? (On common current hardware).
> b. Has the current algorithm been carefully benchmarked and/or optimised
> and/or chosen to fit the IO-bound target as close as possible?
> c. Are there any well-known pitfalls/objections which would prevent me from
> changing the algorithm to something more efficient (read: IO-bound)?
copyright licenses and patents
Which doesn't mean changing anything is impossible, but it is tricky in those
nontechnical ways.
