Data compression having more effective compression

摘要

A lossless data compression system comprises a content addressable memory dictionary (30), a coder (38), and a run length encoding means (39) connected to receive the output of the coder (38), the encoding means (39) being arranged to count the number of times a match consecutively occurs at a predetermined dictionary location, i.e. the number of times the same search tuple is loaded into the same address (50) of the dictionary. Compression is improved.