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		psykotic on Feb 22, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What Is Huffman Coding? Moffat and Turpin's 1997 paper On The Implementation of Minimum Redundancy Prefix Codes contains all the usual tricks and then some: https://github.com/tpn/pdfs/blob/master/On%20the%20Implement...

lifthrasiir on Feb 22, 2021 [–]

See also Charles Bloom's rants [1] describing some of less known ideas from the paper.

[1] https://cbloomrants.blogspot.com/2010/08/08-12-10-lost-huffm...

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