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Re:Understanding Deflate by lifthrasiir on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @09:07PM (#45283639)
Not illustrated here, but the vast majority of deflated data uses a dynamic Huffman code which compresses the Huffman tree itself with another (fixed) Huffman tree. This sort of nested compression is in fact moderately popular; JPEG XL for example uses the same technique.

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