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Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Huffman, a comparison with FSE

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 In this serie explaining the behavior of Finite State Entropy , I find it interesting to make a quick comparison with  Huffman entropy...
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Thursday, January 9, 2014

FSE decoding : how it works

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 After announcing the release of FSE and its results , it's time to have a look at its internals. We'll spend some time first ...
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Monday, December 23, 2013

Zhuff v0.9, or a first FSE application

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 As a quick follow up to last week release of FSE , I wanted to produce a quick demo to show the kind of gain to expect with this new entr...
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Monday, December 16, 2013

Finite State Entropy - A new breed of entropy coder

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 In compression theory, the entropy encoding stage is typically the last stage of a compression algorithm, the one where the gains from t...
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Saturday, October 19, 2013

Compression stream (part 3)

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 After taking care of the decompression stream , it's now time to have a look at the compression side. As stated earlier, a compress...
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Friday, September 27, 2013

Stream Decoding (part 2)

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 I've been considering a complementary idea since writing the first part of LZ4 streaming interface . A major point which bothered ...
Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Towards a Streaming Interface for LZ4

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 After settling a Streaming Format for LZ4 , it seems about time to define a proper API for it. LZ4 is quite stable in "block mode...
Thursday, August 15, 2013

Inter-block compression

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 One of the new capabilities defined into the LZ4 Streaming format is inter-block compression. While the concept is simple to formulate (...
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