bill, I'd be interested in a solution but I don't think I can
contribute any more on this. I played with
https://code.google.com/p/miniz/ and became even more convinced of the
complexity. It seems as though the compressor can decide whether to
include the dictionary code table or not -- likely based on the size
of the table.


http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1950

A preset dictionary is specially useful to compress short input
      sequences. The compressor can take advantage of the dictionary
      context to encode the input in a more compact manner.


More links for anyone who is following and cares to go down the rabbit hole too:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical_Huffman_code

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/759707/efficient-way-of-storing-huffman-tree



On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 1:28 PM, bill lam <[email protected]> wrote:
> This codes seemed invalid.
>
> 1 is a prefix of 11 which is a prefix of 111. Suppose there
> is a bit pattern of 1 1 , it is ambiguous to mean
> [68,'1']  [68,'1']
> or [65,'11']
>
> The huffman code in rfc is canonical meaning there is exactly one
> possible huffman codes for a given bit length vector. This is
> important because the huffman code table itself will not be
> stored inside the deflate stream. The decoder only gets the bit
> length vector, if encoder and decoder use different huffman code
> for the same bit length vectors, it will not work.
>
> Чт, 11 сен 2014, Joe Bogner написал(а):
>> Ignore the pako.js example output... It was just outputting the binary
>> representation of A-Z, not the huffman code
>>
>> This is what I meant to send
>>
>> For ABCD:
>>
>> [65,'11'],
>> [66,'0'],
>> [67,'10'],
>> [68,'1'],
>> [256,'111']
>>
>> It still doesn't seem to be sorting correctly lexographically, but I'm
>> not really in my comfort zone of understanding:
>>
>> The RFC has this instead:
>>
>> Symbol  Code
>>             ------  ----
>>             A       10
>>             B       0
>>             C       110
>>             D       111
>>
>> I don't really know if it has to match the RFC or if each
>> implementation is able to do its own thing as long since it includes
>> the distance/reverse lookup table (whatever it's called).
>>
>> FYI
>>
>>
>> This is where I inserted my code:
>>
>> /* 
>> ===========================================================================
>>  * Generate the codes for a given tree and bit counts (which need not be
>>  * optimal).
>>  * IN assertion: the array bl_count contains the bit length statistics for
>>  * the given tree and the field len is set for all tree elements.
>>  * OUT assertion: the field code is set for all tree elements of non
>>  *     zero code length.
>>  */
>> function gen_codes(tree, max_code, bl_count)
>> //    ct_data *tree;             /* the tree to decorate */
>> //    int max_code;              /* largest code with non zero frequency */
>> //    ushf *bl_count;            /* number of codes at each bit length */
>> {
>>   var next_code = new Array(MAX_BITS+1); /* next code value for each
>> bit length */
>>   var code = 0;              /* running code value */
>>   var bits;                  /* bit index */
>>   var n;                     /* code index */
>>
>>   /* The distribution counts are first used to generate the code values
>>    * without bit reversal.
>>    */
>>   for (bits = 1; bits <= MAX_BITS; bits++) {
>>     next_code[bits] = code = (code + bl_count[bits-1]) << 1;
>>   }
>>   /* Check that the bit counts in bl_count are consistent. The last code
>>    * must be all ones.
>>    */
>>   //Assert (code + bl_count[MAX_BITS]-1 == (1<<MAX_BITS)-1,
>>   //        "inconsistent bit counts");
>>   //Tracev((stderr,"\ngen_codes: max_code %d ", max_code));
>>
>>   for (n = 0;  n <= max_code; n++) {
>>     var len = tree[n*2 + 1]/*.Len*/;
>>     if (len === 0) { continue; }
>>     /* Now reverse the bits */
>>     tree[n*2]/*.Code*/ = bi_reverse(next_code[len]++, len);
>>
>>       if (tree!=static_ltree) {
>>           var v = tree[n*2];
>>           console.log('[' + n + ",'" + v.toString(2) + "'],");
>>       }
>>     //Tracecv(tree != static_ltree, (stderr,"\nn %3d %c l %2d c %4x (%x) ",
>>     //     n, (isgraph(n) ? n : ' '), len, tree[n].Code, next_code[len]-1));
>>   }
>>
>> }
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Joe Bogner <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > I think the prefix coding looks OK, but the 2 rules does not:
>> >
>> > I modified the code[1] to allow passing in a string and outputting the 
>> > codes
>> >
>> > C:\temp>deflate ABCDEFGHIJKLMONPQRSTUVWXYZ
>> > code 65 : 0 00000000000000000000000000000000
>> > code 66 : 6 00000000000000000000000000000110
>> > code 67 : 8 00000000000000000000000000001000
>> > code 68 : 4 00000000000000000000000000000100
>> > code 69 : 22 00000000000000000000000000010110
>> > code 70 : 14 00000000000000000000000000001110
>> > code 71 : 30 00000000000000000000000000011110
>> > code 72 : 1 00000000000000000000000000000001
>> > code 73 : 17 00000000000000000000000000010001
>> > code 74 : 12 00000000000000000000000000001100
>> > code 75 : 9 00000000000000000000000000001001
>> > code 76 : 25 00000000000000000000000000011001
>> > code 77 : 5 00000000000000000000000000000101
>> > code 78 : 21 00000000000000000000000000010101
>> > code 79 : 13 00000000000000000000000000001101
>> > code 80 : 29 00000000000000000000000000011101
>> > code 81 : 3 00000000000000000000000000000011
>> > code 82 : 19 00000000000000000000000000010011
>> > code 83 : 11 00000000000000000000000000001011
>> > code 84 : 27 00000000000000000000000000011011
>> > code 85 : 7 00000000000000000000000000000111
>> > code 86 : 23 00000000000000000000000000010111
>> > code 87 : 15 00000000000000000000000000001111
>> > code 88 : 31 00000000000000000000000000011111
>> > code 89 : 2 00000000000000000000000000000010
>> > code 90 : 10 00000000000000000000000000001010
>> >
>> >
>> > I think it violates the consecutive rule... Each letter has the same
>> > frequency. ABCD have the same bit length. The order is off:
>> >
>> > If I sort it lexographically using javascript:
>> >
>> > JSON.stringify([['a','00000000000000000000000000000000'],
>> > ['b','00000000000000000000000000000110'],
>> > ['c','00000000000000000000000000001000'],
>> > ['d','00000000000000000000000000000100']].sort(function(x,y) { return
>> > x[1] - y[1] }))
>> >
>> > "[["a","00000000000000000000000000000000"],["d","00000000000000000000000000000100"],["b","00000000000000000000000000000110"],["c","00000000000000000000000000001000"]]"
>> >
>> > As you can see, the order comes out a,d,b,c
>> >
>> > I played around with a javascript implementation, pako[2]. It seems to
>> > work correctly:
>> >
>> > As you can see, it sorts lexographically
>> >
>> > JSON.stringify([[65,'1000001'],
>> > [66,'1000010'],
>> > [67,'1000011'],
>> > [68,'1000100'],
>> > [69,'1000101'],
>> > [70,'1000110'],
>> > [71,'1000111'],
>> > [72,'1001000'],
>> > [73,'1001001'],
>> > [74,'1001010'],
>> > [75,'1001011'],
>> > [76,'1001100'],
>> > [77,'1001101'],
>> > [78,'1001110'],
>> > [79,'1001111'],
>> > [80,'1010000'],
>> > [81,'1010001'],
>> > [82,'1010010'],
>> > [83,'1010011'],
>> > [84,'1010100'],
>> > [85,'1010101'],
>> > [86,'1010110'],
>> > [87,'1010111'],
>> > [88,'1011000'],
>> > [89,'1011001'],
>> > [90,'1011010']].sort(function(x,y) { return x[1] - y[1] }))
>> >
>> > "[[65,"1000001"],[66,"1000010"],[67,"1000011"],[68,"1000100"],[69,"1000101"],[70,"1000110"],[71,"1000111"],[72,"1001000"],[73,"1001001"],[74,"1001010"],[75,"1001011"],[76,"1001100"],[77,"1001101"],[78,"1001110"],[79,"1001111"],[80,"1010000"],[81,"1010001"],[82,"1010010"],[83,"1010011"],[84,"1010100"],[85,"1010101"],[86,"1010110"],[87,"1010111"],[88,"1011000"],[89,"1011001"],[90,"1011010"]]"
>> >
>> > All the values are sorted correctly.
>> >
>> > Here it is with the same ABCD example:
>> >
>> > var pako = require('pako');
>> > var binaryString = pako.deflate('ABCD', { to: 'string' });
>> > console.log(binaryString);
>> > var restored = pako.inflate(binaryString, { to: 'string' });
>> > console.log(restored);
>> >
>> > It successfully deflates and inflates itself
>> >
>> > x?♣A☺☺   ? mcÿ7♣A♫☻?☺♂
>> > ABCD
>> >
>> >
>> > Hope this helps...
>> >
>> > [1] - 
>> > https://gist.github.com/joebo/a3c2932f0e5a7a0c3f07#file-deflate-c-L2613
>> > [2] - https://rawgit.com/nodeca/pako/master/dist/pako.js
>> >
>> > On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 11:33 AM, bill lam <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> This is strange since every author must had decode its own encoded
>> >> data as a smoke test.
>> >>
>> >> Did you test if huffman code or bit lengths it produced was
>> >> correct or not, ie it is a prefix coding and it satisfy the 2
>> >> rules in rfc.
>> >>
>> >> Чт, 11 сен 2014, Joe Bogner написал(а):
>> >>> unfortunately the dynamic coding in the putty fork doesn't seem to work:
>> >>>
>> >>> deflate -c deflate.c > out
>> >>> deflate -d out
>> >>>
>> >>> decoding error: incorrect data checksum
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> it works fine with static tables
>> >>>
>> >>> C:\temp>echo ABCD > ABCD
>> >>>
>> >>> C:\temp>deflate -c ABCD > out
>> >>>
>> >>> C:\temp>deflate -d out
>> >>> ABCD
>> >>>
>> >>> I added some debugging code to determine that deflating deflate.c
>> >>> would be a dynamic table...  Assuming it's broke, I probably wouldn't
>> >>> use it as a reference implementation after all
>> >>>
>> >>> On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 3:45 AM, bill lam <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >>> > the frequencies (guessing from bit lengths) should be something like 2 
>> >>> > 3 1 1
>> >>> >   (2 3 1 1) hcodes 'ABCD'
>> >>> >
>> >>> > the hard part is the inverse problem: how to get the huffman code with
>> >>> > prior knowing the bits for each symbol.  Your pointer to the putty
>> >>> > fork looks like helpful.  The comment is in lines 861 to 914, the code
>> >>> > itself in line 915 to 964. Do you know how to express it in J?
>> >>> > Thanks.
>> >>> >
>> >>> > On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Joe Bogner <[email protected]> 
>> >>> > wrote:
>> >>> >> Here a few other links ... after reading through the RFC. Not sure if
>> >>> >> they help, but just sharing from my own research into assisting on
>> >>> >> this topic
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> https://github.com/evegard/pngview/blob/master/huffman.c#L54
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> And a fork of the putty version with dynamic huffman coding:
>> >>> >> http://rc.quest.com/viewvc/putty/trunk/halibut/deflate.c?diff_format=s&revision=2&view=markup
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> Or just generally googling some of the code from the RFC:
>> >>> >> https://www.google.com/search?q=next_code%5Blen%5D%2B%2B%3B&oq=next_code%5Blen%5D%2B%2B%3B&aqs=chrome..69i57.387j0j7&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8#q=next_code%5Blen%5D%2B%2B%3B&start=20
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> Using the code from
>> >>> >> http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Essays/Huffman%20Coding, I got stuck
>> >>> >> trying to match a simple example to the binary tree in the RFC:
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> From the RFC:
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >>                   /\              Symbol    Code
>> >>> >>                          0  1             ------    ----
>> >>> >>                         /    \                A      00
>> >>> >>                        /\     B               B       1
>> >>> >>                       0  1                    C     011
>> >>> >>                      /    \                   D     010
>> >>> >>                     A     /\
>> >>> >>                          0  1
>> >>> >>                         /    \
>> >>> >>                        D      C
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >>    (4#1) hcodes 'ABCD'
>> >>> >> ┌───┬───┬───┬───┐
>> >>> >> │0 0│0 1│1 0│1 1│
>> >>> >> └───┴───┴───┴───┘
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> Per the RFC, ideally that should match this? '00';'1';'011';'010'
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> From there, it seems like a pretty straightforward exercise to
>> >>> >> transliterate the C code from the RFC into J code to recode the
>> >>> >> example to:
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >>             Symbol  Code
>> >>> >>             ------  ----
>> >>> >>             A       10
>> >>> >>             B       0
>> >>> >>             C       110
>> >>> >>             D       111
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> I would probably start with a looping construct like what's in the RFC
>> >>> >> and then figure out a more J way to do it, but first I would need to
>> >>> >> figure out how to create the binary tree in that initial format.
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 7:41 PM, bill lam <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >>> >>> Thanks Joe,
>> >>> >>> putty only use zlib static huffman for encoding so that it does not 
>> >>> >>> build
>> >>> >>> any huffman dictionary table.
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>> The zlib static huffman code does not care about individual symbol's
>> >>> >>> frequency, it just encode 0 to 286 into bits, see section 3.2.6.
>> >>> >>>  On Sep 11, 2014 1:26 AM, "Joe Bogner" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>>> You've already likely considered this, but if it were me I would 
>> >>> >>>> compare
>> >>> >>>> results to a working implementation. The one from putty seems 
>> >>> >>>> pretty clean
>> >>> >>>> and standalone:
>> >>> >>>> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/grumpydev/PortablePuTTY/master/SSHZLIB.C
>> >>> >>>> . I was able to compile it on windows no problem and I assume it'd 
>> >>> >>>> be fine
>> >>> >>>> on linux as well.
>> >>> >>>>
>> >>> >>>> On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 1:00 PM, Raul Miller <[email protected]>
>> >>> >>>> wrote:
>> >>> >>>>
>> >>> >>>> > I think the use of the term "consecutive" rather than 
>> >>> >>>> > "sequential" is
>> >>> >>>> > telling.
>> >>> >>>> >
>> >>> >>>> > The described algorithm is: compute the huffman code lengths:
>> >>> >>>> >    #@>F1 hcodes A1
>> >>> >>>> > 1 3 7 7 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 2
>> >>> >>>> >
>> >>> >>>> > Then assign ascending huffman codes first in length order and then
>> >>> >>>> > within codes of the same length.
>> >>> >>>> >
>> >>> >>>> > Taken literally, that might be something like this:
>> >>> >>>> >
>> >>> >>>> > H=: 4 :0
>> >>> >>>> >   L=.#@> x hcodes y
>> >>> >>>> >   U=.~.L
>> >>> >>>> >   ;<@(({.{.U e.~i.&.<:@{.)<@:+"1-@{.{."1 #:@i.@#)/.~L
>> >>> >>>> > )
>> >>> >>>> >
>> >>> >>>> >    ":@>F1 H A1
>> >>> >>>> > 0
>> >>> >>>> > 1 1 0
>> >>> >>>> > 1 1 1 0 0 1 0
>> >>> >>>> > 1 1 1 0 0 1 1
>> >>> >>>> > 1 1 1 0 0 0
>> >>> >>>> > 1 1 1 0 0 1
>> >>> >>>> > 1 1 1 0 1 0
>> >>> >>>> > 1 1 1 0 1 1
>> >>> >>>> > 1 1 1 1 0 0
>> >>> >>>> > 1 1 1 1 0 1
>> >>> >>>> > 1 1 1 1 1 0
>> >>> >>>> > 1 0
>> >>> >>>> >
>> >>> >>>> > But is this correct? Is it actually safe to leave the results like
>> >>> >>>> > this - with all codes of the same length being consecutive to each
>> >>> >>>> > other?
>> >>> >>>> >
>> >>> >>>> >    F (hcodes -:&:(#@>) H) A
>> >>> >>>> > 0
>> >>> >>>> >
>> >>> >>>> > No.
>> >>> >>>> >
>> >>> >>>> > So... "consecutive" must refer only to the values used and not 
>> >>> >>>> > their
>> >>> >>>> > order within the result.
>> >>> >>>> >
>> >>> >>>> > Perhaps something like this:
>> >>> >>>> >
>> >>> >>>> > deflatecodes=:4 :0
>> >>> >>>> >   L=.#@> x hcodes y
>> >>> >>>> >   U=.~.L
>> >>> >>>> >   R=. ;<@(({.{.U e.~i.&.<:@{.)<@:+"1-@{.{."1 #:@i.@#)/.~L
>> >>> >>>> >   R/:;(</. i.@#)L
>> >>> >>>> > )
>> >>> >>>> >
>> >>> >>>> >    F (hcodes -:&:(#@>) deflatecodes)  A
>> >>> >>>> > 1
>> >>> >>>> >
>> >>> >>>> > There should be a better way of doing this, but this should at 
>> >>> >>>> > least
>> >>> >>>> > get you started.
>> >>> >>>> >
>> >>> >>>> > Thanks,
>> >>> >>>> >
>> >>> >>>> > --
>> >>> >>>> > Raul
>> >>> >>>> >
>> >>> >>>> >
>> >>> >>>> > On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 10:45 AM, bill lam <[email protected]> 
>> >>> >>>> > wrote:
>> >>> >>>> > > For huffman coding used in zlib:
>> >>> >>>> > > https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1951.txt section 3.2.2.
>> >>> >>>> > >
>> >>> >>>> > >  The Huffman codes used for each alphabet in the "deflate"
>> >>> >>>> > >  format have two additional rules:
>> >>> >>>> > >
>> >>> >>>> > >   * All codes of a given bit length have lexicographically
>> >>> >>>> > >   consecutive values, in the same order as the symbols
>> >>> >>>> > >   they represent;
>> >>> >>>> > >
>> >>> >>>> > >   * Shorter codes lexicographically precede longer codes.
>> >>> >>>> > > I tried jwiki hcodes in
>> >>> >>>> > > I try Roger's essay
>> >>> >>>> > > http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Essays/Huffman%20Coding
>> >>> >>>> > >
>> >>> >>>> > > hc=: 4 : 0
>> >>> >>>> > > if. 1=#x do. y
>> >>> >>>> > > else. ((i{x),+/j{x) hc (i{y),<j{y [ i=. (i.#x) -. j=. 2{./:x 
>> >>> >>>> > > end.
>> >>> >>>> > > )
>> >>> >>>> > >
>> >>> >>>> > > hcodes=: 4 : 0
>> >>> >>>> > > assert. x -:&$ y           NB. weights and words have same shape
>> >>> >>>> > > assert. (0<:x) *. 1=#$x    NB. weights are non-negative
>> >>> >>>> > > assert. 1 >: L.y           NB. words are boxed not more than 
>> >>> >>>> > > once
>> >>> >>>> > > w=. ,&.> y                 NB. standardized words
>> >>> >>>> > > assert. w -: ~.w           NB. words are unique
>> >>> >>>> > > t=. 0 {:: x hc w           NB. minimal weight binary tree
>> >>> >>>> > > ((< S: 0 t) i. w) { <@(1&=)@; S: 1 {:: t
>> >>> >>>> > > )
>> >>> >>>> > >
>> >>> >>>> > > but the coding produced is malformed for zlib. eg,
>> >>> >>>> > > this is what I ran into trouble
>> >>> >>>> > >
>> >>> >>>> > > f1=: 1 256 17 1 1 9 1
>> >>> >>>> > > f2=: 2 1 0 1 255 0 1536
>> >>> >>>> > > F=: ,/(f1#f2)
>> >>> >>>> > > A=: i.286
>> >>> >>>> > >
>> >>> >>>> > > F hcodes A
>> >>> >>>> > >
>> >>> >>>> > > Or a shorter example
>> >>> >>>> > >
>> >>> >>>> > > A1=: i.12
>> >>> >>>> > > F1=: 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
>> >>> >>>> > >
>> >>> >>>> > > F1 hcodes A1
>> >>> >>>> > >
>> >>> >>>> > > Any idea?
>> >>> >>>> > >
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