Tailored compression of Java class files

Software - Practice and Experience

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1253-1268

  Horspool, R Nigel ^a   Corless, Jason ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Class file; Data compression; Java

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DATA COMPRESSION; DATA STRUCTURES;

CLASS FILES;

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

EID: 0032183951     PISSN: 00380644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-024X(1998100)28:12<1253::AID-SPE200>3.0.CO;2-8     Document Type: Article

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