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Re: Huffman endoder / decoder

• Posted by DB James <larch at adelphia.net> Oct 25, 2005
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Greg Haberek wrote:
> 
> > I have submitted a program called Huffit.ex that is an elaboration on the=
>  two programs by Junko Miura called huff.ex and dehuff.ex.  It should be av=
> ailable to download soon.
> 
> Ever looked into Arithmetic Coding? I've seen it turn out some
> impressive compression ratios, better than Huffman. Just a thought.
> 
> ~Greg

Hi Greg,

No, I haven't checked out the Arithmetic Coding, but I downloaded some info on
it and will look into it. However, my effort with Huffman was to make use of
Junko's good work and possibly make it more accessible, as well as for practice
in doing that sort of thing: modifying a program for more general use as,
understandably, many coders are focused on getting something to work, but haven't
the time or maybe patience to finish the job as far as the user is concerned. 
The result is that we have good demonstrations of something useful or
interesting, but not quite practical for casual use...

--Quark