This was the day that Mike learned the difference between theory and practice: In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; but in practice, there is.
When I read the challenge, and saw that arbitrary Unix programs were allowed, my first idea for a compressor was to scan the OS software for snippets of data that match the source data.
Of course, that was 10 years ago. Today, in the Cloud world, I'd just write a decompressor that connects to my system over the network and retrieves the source data.
When I read the challenge, and saw that arbitrary Unix programs were allowed, my first idea for a compressor was to scan the OS software for snippets of data that match the source data.
Of course, that was 10 years ago. Today, in the Cloud world, I'd just write a decompressor that connects to my system over the network and retrieves the source data.