On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Jon Callas wrote:
At 5:16 AM -0700 8/8/97, Adam Back said:
Why are PGP so keen to hand huffman encode everything?
I concur completely. I once got so fed up with this habit that I tromped
around the office singing, "Every bit is sacred / Every bit is great / When
a bit is wasted / Phil gets quite irate."
Consider this to be one of the prime things to correct. Personally, I think
that numbers should never (well, hardly ever) be smaller than 32 bits.
Jon
You obviously were never an embedded systems programmer :).
After you expand everything to need a 256K buffer, you can have the fun of
coding PGP5 for the USR Palm Pilot :).
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