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Changes for version 0.11 - 2024-08-22

  • ADDITIONS
    • Added the `crc32()` function.
    • Added the `int2bytes()` and `int2bytes_lsb()` functions.
    • Added the `bzip2_compress()` and `bzip2_decompress()` functions.
    • Added the `gzip_compress()` and `gzip_decompress()` functions.
    • Added the `encode_alphabet_256()` and `encode_alphabet_256()` functions.
  • IMPROVEMENTS
    • Minor documentation improvements.
    • Slightly more efficient encoding of the alphabet, in function `encode_alphabet()`.
  • CHANGES
    • Changed the default value of `$Compression::Util::LZ_MAX_LEN` from 258 to 32768. For some inputs, this results in better compression at no additional costs.

Modules

Implementation of various techniques used in data compression.