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Subject: Re: [9fans] why is image(6) compression so poor?
From: rog@vitanuova.com
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Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 20:21:24 +0000
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> 72+5996*7+3446 = 45280.

serves me right for not doing some simple arithmetic!

actually, it's interesting to observe that for small files
image(6) compression is sometimes better than gif.

overall though, its files seem to average about 50% bigger
(at least that's what the font images average).

it's probably worth it when the compression and decompression
routines combined come to only 272 lines!