Re: Announcing new font compression project

Vladimir Levantovsky wrote:

> 3) I=E2=80=99d like to commend Raph for his efforts in dissecting the MTX
> and creating a new, much more efficient compression engine and its
> reference implementation that allows to precisely quantify the
> individual contribution of each processing/optimization step to
> overall compression efficiency. By doing this he enables us to have
> an informed and intelligent discussion where each piece of the
> compression puzzle can be evaluated based on its complexity and
> resulting data reduction percentage, and where the final decision on
> the new compression algorithm and stream format can be made based on
> real-life experimental results and not just paper specs. Great job,
> Raph!

I'd like to chime in here and also thank Raph and his group for doing all
the legwork involved in putting this proposal together.  Just as Vlad descr=
ibes,
the work that's been done so far gives us enough tools to begin to analyze
the strengths and weaknesses of the proposal by comparing the results for=
=20
real-world situations.

Regards,

John Daggett