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Changes for version 0.05 - 2024-04-13

  • ADDITIONS
    • Added the mrl_compress() and mrl_decompress() functions.
    • Added the read_bit_lsb(), read_bits_lsb(), int2bits(), int2bits_lsb(), bits2int() and bits2int_lsb() functions.
    • Added the read_null_terminated() function.
    • Added the string2symbols() and symbols2string() functions.
  • IMPROVEMENTS
    • Extended `huffman_from_*` to check the context and return only the encoding dictionary in scalar context.
  • CHANGES
    • Simplified `lzss_encode()` for better performance, with a minimal impact on compression ratio.
  • BUG-FIXES
    • Fixed several special cases and added more tests.

Modules

Implementation of various techniques used in data compression.