Compression and Decompression

[Neil Harding]

I like the idea of the competition and I hope to have an entry soon.
I've built a compression system entirely from scratch without using
any existing code. I plan on releasing the source code eventually, but
I hope to have several versions and don't want someone to improve the
code first, before I get the chance (for example I am using huffman
encoding which I may switch to arithmetic coding afterwards). The
previous winners source code is available (since it was based on an
original open source project), and I think that fits well with the
spirit of the competition. Does this sound reasonable? I also am
maintaining a readme file which explains some of methods I am using,
that will also be included in the final release (or available
confidentially to Marcus).

Neil Harding

[Matt Mahoney]

There is no requirement to release source code for the Hutter prize. But I would be surprised if you could submit a winning entry using Huffman coding.

 

-- Matt Mahoney, matma...@yahoo.com

---

From: Neil Harding <neil.a....@gmail.com>
To: Hutter Prize <hutter...@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Friday, September 2, 2011 7:41 PM
Subject: [Hutter Prize] Compression and Decompression

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hutter Prize" group.
To post to this group, send email to hutter...@googlegroups.com.
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to hutter-prize+unsub...@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hutter-prize?hl=en.