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Comment by jakobnissen

1 year ago

Interesting. How do you know the background distribution of bytes? Won't a scan of the haystack to get the distribution take up a significant amount of time?

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burntsushi  1 year ago

It's a _background_ distribution. That is, a guess. A heuristic. It doesn't change with the input.

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