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LZ77 and LZ78 are ubiquitous, forming the basis of compression schemes used in ZIP, PNG, GIF, and Yann Collet's Zstandard. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZ
by tkhattra 4y ago
LZ77 and LZ78 are ubiquitous, forming the basis of compression schemes used in ZIP, PNG, GIF, and Yann Collet's Zstandard.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZ77_and_LZ78 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZ77_and_LZ78
- Retr0id 4y agoHN served this webpage to me using `content-encoding: gzip`, which is using LZ77 (combined with huffman coding) if you look far enough under the hood.