Decompressing a gzip file by hand (sorta), part 2: Now with Huffman

Decompressing a gzip file by hand (sorta), part 2: Now with Huffman(thomastay.dev)

24 points by thomastay 2 years ago | 4 comments

divyenduz 2 years ago |

Oh nice, I did something similar recently (https://github.com/divyenduz/zoid-zip), mine is much lighter/smaller than yours. Instead of following a standard fully, I just use Huffman coding to make stuff smaller!

dang 2 years ago |

Decompressing a Gzip File by Hand - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29336271 - Nov 2021 (18 comments)

jay-barronville 2 years ago | |

Do you sleep? Haha.

dang 2 years ago | | |

I do! but I also keep odd hours, which kind of fits the job. Or maybe the job did it to me