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Decompressing a gzip file by hand (sorta), part 2: Now with Huffman

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Oh nice, I did something similar recently (https://github.com/divyenduz/zoid-zip), mine is much lighter/smaller than yours. Instead of following a standard fully, I just use Huffman coding to make stuff smaller!

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Decompressing a Gzip File by Hand - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29336271 - Nov 2021 (18 comments)

Do you sleep? Haha.

I do! but I also keep odd hours, which kind of fits the job. Or maybe the job did it to me

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