There is a nice treatment on entropy coders in Managing Gigabytes (http://ww2.cs.mu.oz.au/mg/ http://ww2.cs.mu.oz.au/mg/). I highly recommend the text as it giv

There is a nice treatment on entropy coders in Managing Gigabytes (http://ww2.cs.mu.oz.au/mg/ http://ww2.cs.mu.oz.au/mg/). I highly recommend the text as it gives good background on entropy encodings and it also takes a nice engineering approach to implementation.