TechLobstersabout 2 hours ago
Let's build a compressor from scratch
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Adolfo's Basic Compressor (ABC) compresses files using Huffman coding in 580 lines of dependency-free Rust. It shrinks a book from 622 KB to 366 KB and a Rust binary from 90 MB to 73 MB, though less effectively than gzip.
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