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Fast compression in C++ and decompression in C#
Overview
I am working on a client-server application. The client is written in C++ (working on Windows, planning to support Linux) and the server is a .NET RESTful service. I need to HTTP POST some ...
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Arithmetic Coding vs. Machine Numeric Precision
When subdividing intervals for arithmetic coding, the worst case scenario is that the final interval will have size 2^(1-n), where n is the number of unique symbols you are encoding. This will reach ...
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Arithmetic Coding Questions
I have been reading up on arithmetic coding and, while I understand how it works, all the guides and instructions I've read start with something like:
Set up your intervals based upon the ...
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What should developers know about Windows executable binary file compression?
I'd never heard of this before, so shame on me, but programs like UPX can compress my files by 80% which is totally sweet, but I have no idea what the the disadvantages are in doing this. Or even ...
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Anyone have any opinions about Chilkatsoft? [closed]
I'm considering purchasing the Chilkatsoft bundle, which includes a bunch of libraries on lots of technologies.
Specifically, I care about .NET compression, encryption, FTP, and mail libraries, but ...
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Looking for a C# implementation of (Pk) Zip32 [closed]
I need to implement Zip32 (PK compatible) in C#.
I can't just call a separate dll or exe because (1) I don't want to write the uncompressed file to disk and (2) I want to avoid the possibly that ...
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Is it possible to modify a video codec + distribute it?
this is my first question on this particular stackexchange node, not sure if it's the most appropriate place for this question (if not, guidance to the appropriate node would be appreciated).
the ...
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Where can I find good example of techniques to compact data in-memory?
I'm writing a Java framework to manipulate a large amount of data in-memory, where many "cells" that are near each other will have the same value.
I'm looking for algorithms and/or techniques ...
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How effective are CSS, Javascript and HTML compression tools and is it worth to compress files?
I looked into minified versions of jQuery and also various online CSS & HTML compression tools. I tried compressing few CSS files and gained only 20-30% compression.
Are these compression tools ...
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Should I decompress zips before I archive?
I am writing a small personal archiving tool. I frequently work with a lot of client databases for short periods, what my tool will do is in overnight batch jobs it will detach the database and zip up ...
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What's the best way to deal with large compressed files over FTP?
In my application, I'm getting product information files from an FTP server. They are text files that have been ZIP-compressed.
At first, I thought uncompressed the file on the server then reading ...
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What web oriented language would work best with binary data?
I want to create a service where people can upload files. However, since file storage costs money, I want to compress the files so they take less space. I would want to write my own compression ...
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Randomly Accessing Data Packets in a Compressed File
In my line of work I deal with very large files, hundreds of Gigabytes in size. The nature of the data in these files is such that compression would greatly reduce their size. The problem is, the ...
