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TI Z80 / Text compression for AXE programs
« on: October 30, 2011, 08:32:36 pm »
Well I have just been getting a hang of the AXE language and decided my first project is going to be some kind of text compression for my future projects. I was thinking if you use A thru Z, <space>, <period>, <question mark>, <comma>, <single quote>, <colon>. That is 32 characters altogether. You can use 5 bits instead of the 8 bits and therefore saving about 35% space. If you had 500 characters (500 bytes) and use this theory your total memory usage would be approximately 313 bytes. What does everybody think? Would this benefit anybody in their current projects or future ones? Input would be appreciated thanks.