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Re: [Axiom] Pucrunch Decompression and tools
« Reply #15 on: March 29, 2011, 12:31:38 pm »
On the TI-68k platform, Pucrunch has been used for many years in TIGCC and GCC4TI for compressed programs. The compression ratio is OK, and we have well-optimized decompressors made over the years by Greg Dietsche, myself, and later Samuel Stearley (who created the small/slow version and the fast/larger version).
Pucrunch has proven itself to be an excellent tradeoff between compression ratio and decompression speed. LZMA / XZ yields a better compression rate, but the C decompressor is huge and extremely slow (read: ~1 KB/s).

As FloppusMaximus wrote, it's an asymmetrical compression scheme, which won't work for on-calc compression on a TI-Z80 or a TI-68k, because compression requires way too much memory for those platforms. It could work on the Nspire, though.
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Re: [Axiom] Pucrunch Decompression and tools
« Reply #16 on: March 29, 2011, 09:59:53 pm »
The Nspire OS must include the zlib decompression routines; does it include compression routines as well?

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Re: [Axiom] Pucrunch Decompression and tools
« Reply #17 on: March 29, 2011, 10:38:12 pm »
ooh, wonderful!
thanks for your work. this shall definitely be put to use.

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Re: [Axiom] Pucrunch Decompression and tools
« Reply #18 on: March 30, 2011, 04:34:44 am »
FloppusMaximus: in the lists of symbols for IDA, I see inflate*, deflate* and compress* functions.
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