Re: [aspell] Simply but effective Wordlist compression

[Trond Eivind GlomsrØd]

address@hidden (Trond Eivind Glomsrød) writes:

> Kevin Atkinson <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > On 18 Jun 2000, Trond Eivind Glomsrød wrote:
> > 
> > > Kevin Atkinson <address@hidden> writes:
> > > 
> > > > Attached is an extremely simple but very effective program to compress a
> > > > sorted word list.  The list can them be compressed even farther by bzip2
> > > > or gzip.
> > > 
> > > Obvious question: Can this compressed wordlist still be used by
> > > aspell, or do you need to decompress it first? Probably the first one,
> > > as the second option is rather useless - and if so, and it works:
> > > "Hurrah!" 
> > 
> > I am afraid not.  It is totally useless to aspell.  It Will save on
> > CD-SPACE if wordlists are installed with an install script.
> 
> Would you save much more than by just bzipping it? Right now, the
> dictionaries are huge (almost 25 MB for the Danish one...).

Has there been any advances in suffix compression?

address@hidden i386]$ ls -l aspell-{cs,eo,pl}*
-rw-r--r--    8 root     root     30218438 Aug 30 18:13 aspell-cs-0.2-3.i386.rpm
-rw-r--r--    8 root     root     10192261 Aug 30 18:14 aspell-eo-0.1-6.i386.rpm
-rw-r--r--    8 root     root     16603359 Aug 30 18:14 aspell-pl-0.1-6.i386.rpm
address@hidden i386]$ 

(and binary RPMS are actually compressed....)

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