Proposed new encoding: bz2tile
Matt Campbell
mattcampbell "at" pobox.com
Thu Feb 15 19:04:00 2007
Hello James:
I have implemented the encoding, and so far, it seems to work well,
though I'll admit I'm testing on fast CPU's (at least 2 GHz). Please
allocate an encoding number for this encoding.
Also, a clarification on this encoding: Unlike ZRLE, a bz2tile
rectangle does not start with a length field on the wire. Instead, each
bz2tile rectangle is represented on the wire by a complete bzip2 stream.
This works because libbz2 can identify the end of a bzip2 stream and
indicate to the caller how many bytes of input were left unused. It
does mean that a bz2tile rectangle requires at least 37 bytes, but the
server could avoid excess overhead by using hextile for rectangles under
a certain size.
Matt