Marcelo Lazaroni • 6/15/2024

Building a data compression utility in Haskell using Huffman codes

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This technical article provides a step-by-step guide to building a file compression tool using Huffman codes in Haskell. It explains the theory behind prefix-free codes, demonstrates how to create an efficient coder in about 150 lines of code, and leverages laziness to maintain a constant memory footprint during encoding and decoding of arbitrary binary files.

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