Author: Stan Eisenstat
Subject: Re: [Cs323] followup
Date: Sunday, 01 Nov 2020, 16:38:26

    > Message Posted By: Unknown
    >
    > Does the staff solution change C during encode after pruning (to the new
    > code if there is one) or does it continue without adding the string to the
    > table? I am trying to compare the length of the pruned outputs and I think
    > the above makes a difference.

Yes, that choice makes a difference in the size of the
output from encode.  This is why the test scripts do not
require a specific length, but only agreement within 1%.

--Stan-