Totally Off Topic: Very interesting. Did you produce some papers on this? Where do you work? Seems very fun place to work at!
BTW, I thought about this. What do you say? Assume I want to compress data and I succeed in doing so. And then I transfer the compressed data. So all the information I transferred is the compressed data. But, then you don't count all the information: knowledge about which algorithm was used, which number system, laws of math, etc. So there are lots of other information that is implicit, when compress/decompress - not just the data. So, if you add data and all implicit information you get a certain bit size X. Do this again on the same set of data, with another algorithm and you get another bit size Y. You compress the data, using lots of implicit information. If you use less implicit information (simple algorithm relying on simple math), will X be smaller than if you use lots of implicit information (advanced algorithm relying on a large body of advanced math)? What can you say about the numbers X and Y? Advanced math requires many math books that you need to transfer as well. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
