diff --git a/readme.txt b/readme.txt index 147e927..c853a0b 100755 --- a/readme.txt +++ b/readme.txt @@ -1,43 +1 @@ -paq8l is an open source (GPL) file compressor and archiver. -Last update Mar. 18, 2007 by Matt Mahoney. - -Contents of paq8l.zip: - -readme.txt - this file -paq8l.exe - Win32 (MinGW g++) executable for Pentium MMX and higher -paq-8l_intel.exe - Faster Win32 executable (compiled by Johan de Bock with Intel C++ from http://uclc.info ) -paq8l - Linux executable (by Giorgio Tani, Mar. 18, 2007) - -paq8l.cpp - C++ source code for all versions (Mar. 8, 2007) -paq7asm.asm - NASM/YASM assembler code for Pentium MMX or higher -paq7asmsse.asm - NASM/YASM for Pentium 4 (SSE2) or higher in 32 bit mode -paq7asm-x86_64.asm - YASM for x86-64 bit processors (tested in 64 bit Linux) - -paq8l can be compiled for other processors without the assembler -code using the -DNOASM option (but it will run slower). -The assembler code is the same for all paq7/8 versions. - -paq8l was written by Matt Mahoney (as paq8f) with improvements by -Bill Pettis (based on improvements by Alexander Ratushnyak and -Przemyslaw Skibinski in the paq8hp* series) and Serge Osnach (additional -models), and Andrew Paterson (Borland port). The assembler code was ported -to 64 bit by Matthew Fite and 32 bit SSE2 by wowtiger. - -Other contributors to the PAQ project: Berto Destasio (tuning earlier -models for better compression), Johan de Bock (benchmarking, compiling -fast exectuables), David A. Scott (arithmetic coder improvements), -Fabio Buffoni (speed optimizations), Jason Schmidt (compression -improvements), Rudi Cilibrasi (text modeling), and Pavel L. Holoborodko -(PGM image modeling), and Jari Aalto (licensing/distribution). - -This work would not be possible without the benchmarking efforts of -Marcus Hutter (Hutter prize), Werner Bergmans (maximumcompression.com) -Johan de Bock (UCLC), Berto Destasio (Emilcont benchmark), Stephan Busch -(Squeeze Chart), Leonid A. Broukhis (Calgary Corpus Challenge), -and Black Fox. - -A similar (but rewritten) context mixing algorithm is used in -WinRK 3.0.3 (pwcm mode) by Malcolm Taylor. Modified versions of -PAQ (faster but less compression) are used in UDA and WinUDA by dwing, -and in xml-wrt by Przemyslaw Skibinski. - +fbrowser is a sample and loops audio organizer and browser \ No newline at end of file