( < deflate, "õhku välja laskma")

olemus
kadudeta tihenduse algoritm,
algselt patenditud, hiljem standardne;
esimese sammuna asendab korduvad stringid viitadega,
seejärel asendab sümbolid sageduspõhiselt teistega
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a lossless data compression algorithm that uses a combination of LZ77 and Huffman coding

rakendusi
- pakkimisprogramm PKZIP
- failivormingud ZIP, Gzip, PNG jt

ülevaateid
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deflate

https://zlib.net/feldspar.html

http://www.integpg.com/deflate-compression-algorithm/

https://www.ijert.org/research/a-comparative-study-of-image-format-compression-deflate-algorithms-IJERTV6IS120127.pdf

standard
https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1951.txt