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Re:Building a data compression utility in Haskell using Huff... by hcs on Thursday July 04, 2024 @04:05AM (#40873210)
Huffman codes are less efficient per symbol since each symbol is a bit string, arithmetic coding effectively smears symbols across bits more finely. Whether you use a dynamic or static probability model is a different issue applying to either coding method. (Emotionally though I prefer Huffman codes, they're just so neat)

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