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Old 05-07-2007, 06:20
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Question Armadillo compression algorithms

Does anybody know what older versions of Armadillo used as their compression algorithm?
I know newer versions (3.10+) use either ZLIB, or just a simple RLE-like packing ("method 0").
Older versions (e.g. Armadillo 2.x), however, use 3 different methods (according to the compression setting you select in the program) - the same "method 0", and more complex methods 1 and 2 (especially method 2 is quite a lot of code). Does anybody know what they are? Is it some common compression algorithm, with source code available maybe?

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