How gzip uses Huffman codingI wrote a blog post quite a while ago called gzip + poetry = awesome where I talked about how the gzip compression program uses the LZ77 algorithm to identify repetitions in a piece of text. In case you don’t know what LZ77 is (I sure didn’t), here’s the video from that post that gives you an example of gzip identifying repetitions in a poem! I thought this was a great demonstration, but it’s only
