[pgpointcloud] RLE and SIGBITS heuristics

Sandro Santilli strk at keybit.net
Thu Apr 9 03:41:32 PDT 2015


Reading the code I found that SIGBITS is used when it gains
a compression ratio of 1.6:1 while RLE is required to get 4:1
ratio (but the comment talk about a 4:1 for both).

How were the ratios decided ?

https://github.com/pgpointcloud/pointcloud/blob/v0.1.0/lib/pc_dimstats.c#L121-L137

--strk; 


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