Compression on Bruno Pedrohttps://brunopedro.com/tags/compression/Recent content in Compression on Bruno PedroHugoen-usTue, 08 May 2018 10:00:15 -0700FPC: a floating-point compressorhttps://brunopedro.com/2011/04/08/fpc/Fri, 08 Apr 2011 13:14:59 +0000https://brunopedro.com/2011/04/08/fpc/<p><a href="http://www.csl.cornell.edu/~burtscher/research/FPC/" title="FPC">FPC</a> is a very fast lossless compressor with better results than most traditional algorithms:</p> <blockquote> <p>FPC compresses linear sequences of IEEE 754 double-precision floating-point values by sequentially predicting each value, xoring the true value with the predicted value, and leading-zero compressing the result.</p> </blockquote>