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Description of the dmc-50M method

Version 0.0.0, 1993.

This program implements Dynamic Markov Compression (DMC) as described in Data Compression using Dynamic Markov Modelling by Gordon Cormack and Nigel Horspool (in Computer Journal 30:6, December 1987)

Our tests used DMC with a memory usage of 5MB (dmc-5M) and 50MB (dmc-50M).



This page last updated Monday, January 08, 2001 by Matt Powell Department of Computer Science University of Canterbury