Comment by jakobnissen
Comment by jakobnissen 2 days ago
Interesting. How do you know the background distribution of bytes? Won't a scan of the haystack to get the distribution take up a significant amount of time?
Comment by jakobnissen 2 days ago
Interesting. How do you know the background distribution of bytes? Won't a scan of the haystack to get the distribution take up a significant amount of time?
It's a _background_ distribution. That is, a guess. A heuristic. It doesn't change with the input.