Quantized Indexing Source Code Available
Posted by Sachin Garg on 28th December 2005 | Permanent Link
We first talked about Quantized Indexing about a month ago. It is coding based on enumerative combinatorics (walks on Pascal triangle, counting of integer lattice paths). The promise held by this algorithm is that of being much faster and having better compression efficiency too.
Back then, it created a lot of noise at comp.compression and the discussions couldn’t reach any conclusion, everyone just decided to wait for its working implementation to be released so that all the claims about its speed and effectiveness can be verified.
Well, a few days ago, Ratko V. Tomic, Chief scientist & CTO of 1stWorks Corp which holds patent for Quantized Indexing, announced availability of source code for Quantized Indexing.
The thread also includes sample source code to illustration how simple enumerative coding is. But take care, its has a patent pending.
January 10th, 2006 at 1:48 pm
[...] 20;NightLight” to present code which can prove his claims. The inventor had already published code for Quantized Indexing, but it is somehow not convincing enough for others at comp.compression, [...]