Comment on Dissecting the gzip format (2011)parentComments−qhwudbebd1yI agree about the practical utility of bzip2. It's quite an interesting historical artefact, though, as it's the only one of these compression schemes that isn't dictionary-based. The Burrows-Wheeler transform is great fun to play with.
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I agree about the practical utility of bzip2. It's quite an interesting historical artefact, though, as it's the only one of these compression schemes that isn't dictionary-based. The Burrows-Wheeler transform is great fun to play with.