Robert Rohde wrote: > On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Ilmari Karonen <nos...@vyznev.net> wrote: >> Hmm? Admittedly, I don't know the bzip2 format very well, but as far as >> I understand it, there should be no bit-shifting involved: each block in >> the stream is a completely independent, self-contained sequence of bytes. > > I believe the point is that each block is a self-contained sequence of > bits not bytes, so a block can terminate in the middle of a byte. The > next block is appended immediately (if I understand correctly), so > block boundaries do not necessarily align to byte boundaries. Hence > the need to do bit shifting.
The Wikipedia article (what else?) on the format says the blocks are padded to byte boundaries, and some quick testing seems to support that. -- Ilmari Karonen _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
