Brion Vibber wrote: > On 3/26/09 12:30 PM, Ilmari Karonen wrote: >> The Wikipedia article (what else?) on the format says the blocks are >> padded to byte boundaries, and some quick testing seems to support that. > > That is a filthy lie. :) > > There is indeed no byte padding between blocks; it made my > implementation of a parallel bzip2 compressor much harder and I never > got round to finishing the decompressor.
You're right, I misread it. Only the whole stream is padded. :( (In my defense, that seems like such a moronic design choice that I couldn't believe it could be true. If you're going to waste 48 bits per block on pi-in-BCD anyway, it seems silly to skimp on the 4 bits of per block that'd be needed on average to pad to a byte boundary.) -- Ilmari Karonen _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
