From 61b7c1cb8e9b9216a04264d4685b9990f15745ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andy McFadden Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2020 07:56:46 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md --- README.md | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 5b4f319..64a3b3e 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -38,7 +38,8 @@ does about 4% better on average -- not huge, but not negligible. Other compression programs, such as gzip, produce significantly smaller output, but uncompression is much slower and requires more memory. -The comments in [fhpack.cpp](fhpack.cpp) describe the data format. +The comments in [fhpack.cpp](fhpack.cpp) describe the data format. It's +essentially LZ4 modified to work better on a system with 8-bit registers. There is no implementation of the compression side for the 6502. An implementation that uses greedy parsing is feasible, as the bulk of the