Lossless compression: state of the art

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Lossless compression state of the art
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Many more variants

• In our lessans weve seen some of the most common
  algorithms for lossless compression
• Literature and applications presents many more
  variants
• Popular applications have proprietary encoding
  schemes

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State of the art (2005)

• Windows
• Linux
• Mac

• .Zip
• .Cab
• .RAR
• .ACE
• .7z (7-Zip)

• .gz (gzip)
• .bz2 (bzip2)
• .Z (Compress)