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Re:A Gentle Introduction to Data Compression by jokoon on Monday December 29, 2014 @03:02PM (#8811508)
lz77 is a little hard to explain, but I don't have any degree in CS nor math and I managed to understand it a little, not that I could really be able to reproduce it.

isn't lz77 the most efficient text compression algorithm ?

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Re:A Gentle Introduction to Data Compression by ryan-c on Monday December 29, 2014 @08:43PM (#8812888)
LZ77 is usually more efficient when combined with Huffman coding (this is what DEFLATE does).
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