Survey of Code-Size Reduction M ethods

ACM Computing Surveys

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 223-267

  Beszédes, Árpád ^a   Ferenc, Rudolf ^a   Gyimóthy, Tibor ^a   Dolenc, André ^b   Karsisto, Konsta ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^b NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Code compaction; Code compression; Method assessment; Method evaluation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DATA REDUCTION; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS;

DATA COMPACTION;

DATA COMPRESSION;

EID: 10744230537     PISSN: 03600300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/937503.937504     Document Type: Review

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