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Re: [Caml-list] New Ocaml Plug-in for NetBeans

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From:	Jon Harrop <jonathandeanharrop@g...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] New Ocaml Plug-in for NetBeans

On Monday 08 September 2008 00:31:47 Nathaniel Gray wrote:
> In fact, gzip does a pretty fine job of optimizing .annot files.  The
> source file this .annot came from is 15K, the .annot file is 78K, and
> gzipping it gets it down to 9K.

Tokenizing that .annot format by simply mapping each string onto a unique 
token and writing out the mapping first will shrink such files enormously 
whilst still being easily dissected from any language. Moreover, the benefit 
is super-linear...

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