Two slight benefits of Huffman codes over arithmetic: * They usually self synchronize when some data is corrupted (but not guaranteed, does not apply where the

Two slight benefits of Huffman codes over arithmetic: * They usually self synchronize when some data is corrupted (but not guaranteed, does not apply where the Huffman table is dynamic) * Neither Huffman nor arithmetic codes are easy to parallelize the decoding of, but Huffman is slightly easier.