Jan 11, 2020
7 min read
How Data Compression Works: Exploring LZ78
How does the GIF format work?
In this post, we are going to explore LZ78, a lossless data-compression algorithm created by Lempel and Ziv in 1978. As an example, the GIF format is based on LZ78. LZ78 takes advantage of a dictionary-based data structure to compress our data. In this case, it makes use of a trie data structure, as it’s more efficient for this compression…
