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DEFLATE specification v1.3 (HTML)
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Ad Hoc Compression Methods: RLE | Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
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| | Suppose you have been sub-contracted by a video game company, say Nintendo, to come up with an low power, low-memory, implementation of a popular video game, say, an installment of the infamous Pokémon series. The envisaged device is very slow (it has a 2MHz processor) but has a 220×176 pixels color screen capable of displaying
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Understanding zlib
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| | [AI summary] This technical article provides a comprehensive in-depth explanation of the zlib library, covering its internal implementation of the deflate algorithm (LZ77 and Huffman encoding), I/O buffering strategies, and various performance optimizations from companies like Intel, Google, and Facebook.
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Huffman decoder for HPACK - L. Pereira's blog
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| | [AI summary] This technical blog post details the author's implementation of a Huffman decoder for HPACK within the Lwan web server to optimize HTTP/2 header compression.
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An Introduction to Compression - Imran Nazar
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| An exploration of the different types of compression, looking at the workings of lossless compression methods such as RLE and Huffman encoding, and taking an overview of perceptive compression and why it works. If you've ever wondered how a CD can be shrunk down from 650MB of sound to 65MB, this article tells you how it's done.