Re: Misc Codec Questions....

Segher Boessenkool wrote:
>> The author of this page has invented an alternative entropy-coder
>> which has better performance than arithmetic coding in his tests.
> 
> That's very interesting, as arithmetic coding is provable optimal
> (under some conditions, of course;  Huffman coding is optimal under its
> own conditions as well, of course ;) )

Its not so much just an entropy coder, but a way of modeling is an
inherent part of the method ... its compared to with a arithmetic coder
with a "popular" "adaptive fixed context bit-based model". The
advantage of his method that despite the better modelling (shown by
the compression) the computational complexity stays relatively low.

Marco


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