On using Goldbach G0 codes and Even-Rodeh codes for text compression on using Goldbach G0 codes and Even-Rodeh codes for text compression

Abstract

This research aims to study the efficiency of two variants of variable-length codes (i.e., Goldbach G0 codes and Even-Rodeh codes) in compressing texts. The parameters being examined are the ratio of compression, the space savings, and the bit rate. As a benchmark, all of the original (uncompressed) texts are assumed to be encoded in American Standard Codes for Information Interchange (ASCII). Several texts, including those derived from some corpora (the Artificial corpus, the Calgary corpus, the Canterbury corpus, the Large corpus, and the Miscellaneous corpus) are tested in the experiment. The overall result shows that the Even-Rodeh codes are consistently more efficient to compress texts than the unoptimzed Goldbach G0 codes.