Re: [boost] Any interrest for zip/bzip2 iostreams ?

From: RGProlog_at_[hidden]
Date: 2003-10-09 15:16:18

I am going to put the code on Yahhoo today ot tomorrow. As far as compressing 
or uncompressing data, the term compression in this algorithm case is a 
little bit of misnomer. Implementation of std:: bitset interface's functions being 
the ts_bitse class subinterface, the ts_bitset interface is written in terms 
of the uncompressed bitset thus making the uncompressed bitset a virtual 
presense. And that's about it. The essense of a transition sparse bitset is that it 
can be assembled from a relatively small set of alternating zero and one 
intervals. Everything that one can conceivably do with subintervals of an 
ubcompressed bitset the ts_bitset does better. Rather than compressing a bitset the 
ts_bitset class avoids dealing with it alltogether and can be built up from a 
sequence of intervals. The ts_bitset class, though, can be both constructed from 
and converted to a binary string. I included this capacity partly because I 
wanted to implement std::bitset::to_string() function as means of implementing 
the << operator and partly for testing purposes. That's about as close  to 
comressing and uncompressing binary data as the ts_bitset interface in its present 
form gets. 

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Roman Gitlin