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lDebug release 9 - Heatshrink compressed drives? (Announce)

posted by Oso2k, 30.01.2025, 05:12

> > If you ever feel bored, maybe you could consider building a heatshrinked
> > version of SHSUCDHD?
>
> If you've got the RAM I think you'd be better off just using gzip and
> SHSUCDRD. But anyway, here's a
> demonstration
> compressor (Windows binary), using Tamp (with a modified
> compressor.c to remove the header byte). It's not exactly quick, but a
> Windows (or Linux) version could parallelize. Haven't looked into
> decompressing, but it seems a straight-forward implementation would add
> about 5K (2k code, 2Ki buffer, 1Ki window). Not that I'll probably ever
> write one...

What about LZ4 compression? It uses very little memory and Trixter made a version for the 8088. http://www.oldskool.org/pc/lz4_8088/

 

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