Re: [aspell] Simply but effective Wordlist compression

[Kevin Atkinson]

On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Bjoern Jacke wrote:

> On 2000-06-19 at 14:43 +0200 Kenneth Christiansen sent off:
> > Ah, that is what it does...the uncompiled wordlists. Ok, that can also
> > get very handy I think. :)
> 
> I'm using it on the German word list with round about 300,000 words and
> it gives more than 60% better compression results if it's
> pre-compressed by this utility.
> BTW - you can find a perl version of it attached to this mail

The perl version doesn't do quite the same thing and it does not save as
much space because I avoided the need for an end of word character in most
cases.....

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