The name given to the process of encoding data such that it uses lesser number of bits as compared to the original representation.

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RLE-like string compression in clojure

There have been already many similar questions to this one (e.g. this and this, just to point two), but I did not find any for clojure. The goal is to compress a string in a RLE-like way: i.e. each ...
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Extracting RAR files in a directory

I just started programming, and something is telling me that this working function looks to big for what it does. Can you give a better version of the code so I can understand how to code faster, ...
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String compression implementation in C

I implemented basic string compression algorithm that uses the counts of repeated characters. For example: the string aabcccccaaa would become a2b1c5a3. What do you think about this, is there a better ...
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Simple compression on steroids - now with decompression

A third follow up to the simple compression implementation. Adopted most of @holroy's suggestions. Main changes: Compression now uses high-bit to indicate that additional length bytes are still ...
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Simple compression reloaded++

As a follow up to my previous question I've improved the code + algorithm. The compression now works the following way: Each character is followed by a length byte. The top 3 bits of that byte denote ...
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Simple string compression reloaded

Inspired by this question I thought I provide my implementation. I tried to go with the spirit of the *nix tool chain - read from stdin and write to stdout. This has the added benefit of making ...
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Algorithm for simple string compression

I attempted a problem from the Cracking the Coding Interview book. The following input: aabcccaaa should give the following output: ...
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C++11 implementation of Huffman-encoding

This is a c++11 implementation of Huffman-encoding that I wrote as a hobby. My main goal in writing it was to get more accustomed to c++11 and STL in general, as well as stuff like bit-manipulation. ...
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Jacob's Ladder compression [closed]

I'm currently interested in a logical decay algorithm which will need me to have the correct coordination of 3 bytes. I have 2 of them, initially. After that, I have to get 2 from the one, but in that ...
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lz77 is quick on strings but not on bytes

I ported a lz77 implementation from java to c#, and it's working fine. Now I want it to compress bytes and not strings, as I need it for another project. This is the porting, operating on string: ...
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Run-length encoding in Haskell

I wrote a short Haskell script to compress and decompress via the use of run length encoding. The concept is simple enough, n equal items ...
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String compression by using repeated characters count

My task was to perform a basic string compression by replacing consecutive repeated characters by one instance of the character and integer denoting the number of repetitions. For example the string ...
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Convert zip to gzip and upload to S3 bucket

My code accesses an FTP server, downloads a .zip file, pushes the file contents as .gz to an AWS S3 bucket. ...
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Brotli compression algorithm, translated from Python into Haskell

I have converted some code in Python into its Haskell equivalent. Python implementation: ...
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Interop compression

This is a function definition from an external dll, that I'm calling from my code: ...
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Reverse engineering Darkstone game archives

Reverse engineering old games is something I do every now and then. This time, I took a shot at this old RPG called Darkstone. The bulk of the game's data is stored in archive files with the ...
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LZW encoder and decoder

Recently, I reviewed this question about an LZW decoder. In order to properly review that question, I needed to write my own encoder and decoder to be able to test their program. Someone thought it ...
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LZW decompressor in C (II)

Here is an update to my previous thread which you can find here. Again, I'd very much appreciate any advice or comments about the structure/logic of the program, style of the code, or reusability of ...
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LZW decompressor in C

Here is a simple decompressor in C. I'd very much appreciate any advice or comments about the structure/logic of the program, style of the code, or reusability of the features. I'm a real novice and ...
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Bash Compress Managed Directory Ignoring .git, bower_components, node_modules, etc

Fairly easy way to compress a wordpress plugin (or similar) as a zip file without including all the dependencies used to create and manage the development, but which don't belong in the final product. ...
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Teamwork challenge for Timus Online Judge

Question is here: Input The first line contains an integer \$N\$, which is the quantity of numbers written down by Vasya (\$1 \le N \le 1000\$). The second line contains these numbers ...
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Transforming an array in Ruby

I watched a presentation by Dave Thomas on Elixir where he gave an example problem that he solved using functional programming. He mentioned using Ruby to solve the same problem, but did not show an ...
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Simple LZW compression algorithm

It's a simple version of LZW compression algorithm with 12 bit codes. I want to know what's good and what's bad about this code. Be as picky as you like. ...
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Huffman code generator in Haskell

This is problem 50 in https://wiki.haskell.org/99_questions/46_to_50. The website has more elegant Haskell solutions, but I wanted to get feedback on how the code I wrote on my own below could be ...
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Program for compacting other given code

I've just finished a small function that will reduce the size of code as much as possible without breaking anything. Obviously it makes everything a bit unreadable so it's not really for cleaning the ...
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Copying messages with compression

I have the following Main class: ...
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Using reduce twice in a row for Run Length Encoding

First of all, I'm new to Lisp (I currently use CLISP and SBCL). There probably are huge mistakes in this code so any guidelines are welcome :) I'm very confused about how to do this. It's just about ...
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HTML Compressor with regex

I would like to compress a Magento HTML page using some regex, and this is what I have written: ...
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Process zip files

I have zip bundle, for example, abcd.zip, contains more zips like 1.zip, 2.zip etc. Inside of each child zip there is a .jpg file like 1.jpg, 2.jpg etc. There are so many other files but I need only ...
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Compress an ASCII string

Given an ASCII string create a 'compressed' version of it. For example, aabccccddddddde would output a2bc4d7e whereas abc would output abc. This is how I've implemented it. Is there a smarter way ...
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Compressing a stream asynchronously, and returning a byte[]

Assuming I have to leave the contract intact (take byte[] and return byte[]), what's the correct way to structure this ...
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Converting Ocean to RunLengthEncoding object

For the problem statement shown below: Part II(b): Your run-length encodings will only be useful if other classes have the ability to read them after you create them. Therefore, implement the ...
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Counting the lines of a compressed file

This is a Python script for counting the lines of a compressed file: ...
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Backing up an entire website with PHP

I'm attempting to backup lots of website using this php code. The script basically goes through the whole public_html directory and adds all the folders and files recursively and zips them. Here's ...
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String compression using repeated character counts

Implement a method to perform basic string compression using the counts of repeated characters. For example, the string aabcccccaaa would become ...
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Saving bytes instead of objects to write smaller files

This question is about reducing the size of files saved to disk in an infinite world 2D mining game. I finally added code to my game to save and load distant chunks instead of keeping all of them ...
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Evaluation of a solution for Run-length encoding algorithm

I wrote an answer for the following question and wondering if there is any better approach to it. Using the Java language, have the function RunLength(str) take ...
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Basic string compression counting repeated characters

My task was to implement a method which performs basic string compression by counting sequences of repeating characters. Given "aaabbbccc" it should return ...
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String compression implementation in C#

I wrote a method that reduces a string like aabcccccaaa to a2b1c5a3 My implementation: ...
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Lossy packing 32 bit integer to 16 bit

I am working on the lossy 16 bit representation for 32 bit integers that catches all 32 bit range with precision depending on absolute value. My idea is to store integer ...
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Run length encoding of vectors in MATLAB: looped version and vectorized version

A project I'm working on requires something akin to run length encoding on a vector in matlab. The data is in the form of a numeric vector, and the output is in the form of two vectors, ...
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Simple compression algorithm

An implementation of a simple compression algorithm that's featured in a programming practice book. My goals: Robust: All error conditions must be handled properly. The specification indicated in ...
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Bit compressing in JavaScript

I have an bit array var data = []; ... and I have the following function: jsPerf ...
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Processing compressed .csv files

I have some .csv files compressed in .bz2 format. I need to take a subset of the records (and data) and switch to .gz. I am not happy with the performance. Is there a more efficient way to do it? ...
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C++ demo code for interaction with C

I want to show how to interact with C from C++ and chose a simple and small library to demonstrate. zlib's gzopen, gzwrite and ...
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Increase efficiency of basic string compressor

I was wondering what I can do to increase the performance of this program. The algorithm is pretty slow right now but I was wondering what I can do to increase the efficiency of this program. I used ...
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Comparing run-length decoding algorithms

I'm working on Ocaml.org 99 problems, and I solved the run-length decode one. Here is the solution given by the site: ...
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Huffman code implementation

I'm looking for code review, optimizations, best practices. ...