Re:Writing a competitive BZip2 encoder in Ada from scratch i...
by andsoitis on Thursday July 17, 2025 @10:55AM
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Bottom of page links to the sources: https://github.com/zertovitch/zip-ada
Re:Writing a competitive BZip2 encoder in Ada from scratch i...
by etrez on Friday July 18, 2025 @04:03PM
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Thanks for the feedback. Multiple posts are planned on that topic. For parts 1 and 2 (so far the only ones existing) I preferred explaining the context and the remarkable simplicity of the BZip2 format. In part #4, I will try to show why the customisable types in Ada fit so well compression software.
Be patient: writing articles about writing software takes much more time than writing the software itself!
In the meantime, there is a short preview of that in recent presentations - notably FOSDEM 2025: https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5148-adve... , last slide.
Simply as one who does not use Ada I had hoped to be a bit more informed about it.