LZ77
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== See also == | == See also == | ||
* [[DEFLATE]] | * [[DEFLATE]] | ||
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== Resources == | == Resources == | ||
* [[Wikipedia:LZ77 and LZ78|Wikipedia: LZ77 and LZ78]] | * [[Wikipedia:LZ77 and LZ78|Wikipedia: LZ77 and LZ78]] | ||
Revision as of 00:56, 2 May 2013
LZ77 is a general data compression algorithm. It works by putting codes in the compressed datastream which indicate that some recently-decompressed data is to be repeated.
