Thanks! I've got the canonical stuff down pat already in my project, but I am still allocating the tree to get the bit-lengths in the first place. Once I have t

Thanks! I've got the canonical stuff down pat already in my project, but I am still allocating the tree to get the bit-lengths in the first place. Once I have the package-merge algorithm up and running, the code will never allocate a tree at all for construction, plus I'll have the added benefit of length-limited codes.