Comment on Jacob Ziv has diedComments−tkhattraOP3yLZ77 and LZ78 are ubiquitous, forming the basis of compression schemes used in ZIP, PNG, GIF, and Yann Collet's Zstandard.[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZ77_and_LZ78−Retr0id3yHN served this webpage to me using `content-encoding: gzip`, which is using LZ77 (combined with huffman coding) if you look far enough under the hood.
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LZ77 and LZ78 are ubiquitous, forming the basis of compression schemes used in ZIP, PNG, GIF, and Yann Collet's Zstandard.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZ77_and_LZ78
HN served this webpage to me using `content-encoding: gzip`, which is using LZ77 (combined with huffman coding) if you look far enough under the hood.