Compressing files in C
We have written utility functions for sorting our data structures and today we'll start writing the routines for actually compressing the files.
This is episode two of the series.
We'll code a file compressor which will divide a file into 32 bit integers and create a list with unique entries. Then we'll swap each 32 bit block for a 16 bit index, and compress consecutive similar blocks even more.
References
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2. Ep 01: Coding a WINZIP file compressor in C
• Coding a WINZIP file compressor in C
Table of Contents
00:00:00 Introduction
00:00:37 Search function
01:34:04 Compressing files
01:49:06 Higher-order filtering