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2001.12.18 03:42 "Where is the best place to find compression algorithm", by Harry Williams

2001.12.18 03:48 "Re: Where is the best place to find compression algorithm", by Dave Sopchak

2001.12.25 03:35 "Re: Where is the best place to find compression algorithm", by Jon Saxton

2001.12.25 05:03 "Re: Where is the best place to find compression algorithm", by Kiriakos Georgiou

2001.12.18 14:52 "Re: Where is the best place to find compression algorithm", by Joel Schumacher

2001.12.25 05:03 "Re: Where is the best place to find compression algorithm", by Kiriakos Georgiou

> The beauty of the libtiff code is that it has been around for a long time
> now.  In particular, the G3/G4 codecs are very stable and probably 
> thoroughly debugged. Rolling your own might turn out to be more difficult.

I know first hand how painful it is to write a CCITT G4 decoder from
scratch, and unless you use assembly I couldn't come up with a faster
algorithm!

Kiriakos