Parallel algorithms for the static dictionary compression
Hideo Nagumo, Mi Lu, Karan L. Watson · 2002
Studies parallel algorithms for two static dictionary compression strategies. One is the optimal dictionary compression with dictionaries that have the prefix property, for which our algorithm requires O(L+log n) time and O(n) processors, where L is the maximum allowable length of the dictionary entries, while previous results run in O(L+log n) time using O(n/sup 2/) processors, or in O(L+log/sup 2/n) time using O(n) processors. The other algorithm is the longest-fragment-first (LFF) dictionary compression, for which our algorithm requires O(L+log n) time and O(nL) processors, while the previous result has O(L log n) time performance on O(n/log n) processors. We also show that the sequential LFF dictionary compression can be computed online with a lookahead of length O(L/sup 2/).