Andrei, did you compress each file name separately or their list as one block of data?
I 've tested on a single long file name (250 characters) and gzip compressed that to 191 bytes, bzip2 to 222 bytes.
I suppose that plain simple huffman encoding could potentially be much more effective...
Andrei, did you compress each file name separately or their list as one block of data?
I 've tested on a single long file name (250 characters) and gzip compressed that to 191 bytes, bzip2 to 222 bytes.
I suppose that plain simple huffman encoding could potentially be much more effective...