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This is actually kind of genius: > To reduce transmission overhead, the Kermit protocol uses a simple, but often surprisingly effective, compression technique:
by EarthLaunch 3y ago
This is actually kind of genius:
> To reduce transmission overhead, the Kermit protocol uses a simple, but often surprisingly effective, compression technique: repeated byte values are represented by a count+byte combination.
> Analysis of large volumes of both textual and binary data shows an average compression of 15-20%.
- snvzz 3y ago>repeated byte values are represented by a count+byte combination. That's just an implementation of RLE[0]. Very common in formats from the 80s. RLE was e.g. used in Amiga IFF ILBM compression. 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run-length_encoding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run-length_encoding