Data compression techniques for economic processing of large commercial files

  • Authors:
  • James E. Mulford;Richard K. Ridall

  • Affiliations:
  • Ridall Associates, Inc., Paoli, Pennsylvania;Ridall Associates, Inc., Paoli, Pennsylvania

  • Venue:
  • SIGIR '71 Proceedings of the 1971 international ACM SIGIR conference on Information storage and retrieval
  • Year:
  • 1971

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Abstract

The application of compact coding, differencing and other techniques to indexed sequential files is discussed. The effects on system performance are discussed and reductions of almost 80% in mass storage requirements for a particular file are reported.