Huffman Compressor
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@devlsx
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A working huffman compressor in rust
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A from-scratch Huffman file compressor in Rust with a visual terminal UI that draws the tree, plus a live WebAssembly demo.
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Spent tonight building a little Huffman compressor in Rust. The idea’s old and simple: count how often each byte shows up in a file, build a binary tree where the common bytes sit near the top, and give them the shortest bit-codes. More skewed the data, better it squeezes.
