One more link: 
http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/zlib/zlib-43/zlib/contrib/puff/puff.c

 * puff.c is a simple inflate written to be an unambiguous way to specify the
 * deflate format.  It is not written for speed but rather simplicity.

Not sure if it's any use

On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 9:46 PM, Joe Bogner <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks for the background. I don't know if I'm helping any but figured
> I'd share one more thing (for now). I found a library,
> https://github.com/lvandeve/lodepng, that has a permissive license and
> successfully decoded and encoded a png file.
>
> As simple as:
>
> lodepng_decode32_file(&image, &width, &height, filename);
>
> lodepng_encode32_file("c:\\temp\\viewmatanalysis2.png", image, width, height);
>
> the new image opened fine in my image viewer.
>
> from: https://github.com/lvandeve/lodepng/blob/master/example_decode.c
>
> I stepped through the code in visual c and can see it doing the
> dynamic huffman encoding.
>
> It might be a decent reference implementation to convert to J or at
> least provide a test case against.
>
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 9:07 PM, bill lam <[email protected]> wrote:
>> It seems everyone use huffman code in its own way, at least huffman coding
>> in jpeg is different from that in deflate.
>>
>> The intent to is to replace bmp with png as the default image format in jal
>> addons for j803.  This is already almost fully done. With dynamic huffman
>> coding, png images can achieve better compression ratio. But even without
>> it, png files using fixed huffman coding can already compress about 90% to
>> 99% for images output from viewmat.
>>
>> The addon will use stock zlib binaries when they are  available, otherwise
>> falls back to J implementation.
>>
>> This is independent of jqt so that it can work for jconsole and jhs.
>>
>> I don't know the details but I think jhs can also take advantage to support
>> gzip/deflate encoding for transfer.
>> On Sep 12, 2014 8:33 AM, "Joe Bogner" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> The bit widths are calculated from the huffman tree
>>>
>>> See
>>>
>>>
>>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/759707/efficient-way-of-storing-huffman-tree
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.siggraph.org/education/materials/HyperGraph/video/mpeg/mpegfaq/huffman_tutorial.html
>>>
>>> The timing is interesting considering we were talking about trees the other
>>> day:
>>>
>>> http://jsoftware.2058.n7.nabble.com/Ragged-Array-Shapes-are-Trees-td63207.html
>>>
>>> I was thinking to myself then how I hadn't used trees more than a few times
>>> in 18 years of programming.
>>>
>>> I am not sure how to apply your code to the problem.  I also am not
>>> completely sure what problem we are solving.  If it is creating a
>>> standalone J deflate implementation or PNG compression it may be a tall
>>> order. I would be curious why not just interface to a C library like what
>>> is done in the image3 addon:
>>> http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Addons/media/image3
>>> On Sep 11, 2014 6:27 PM, "Raul Miller" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> > Here's the code I came up with, with Bill's help:
>>> >
>>> > bl_count=:3 :0 NB. y is result of freqs
>>> >   0,}.<:#/.~(,~ [: i. 1 + >./)y
>>> > )
>>> >
>>> > start_vals=: +:@+/\.&.|.@}:@,~&0
>>> >
>>> > find_codes=:3 :0 NB. y is result of freqs
>>> >  b=. bl_count y
>>> >  v=. start_vals b
>>> >  n=. /:~ ~.y-.0
>>> >  o=. ;({./.~ /:~ (</. i.@#)) y
>>> >  c=. ;<"1&.>n (([#2:) #: ])&.> (*b)#v+&.>i.&.>b
>>> >  c /: o
>>> > )
>>> >
>>> > An alternate version of the result from find_codes would be given by:
>>> >
>>> > def_code=:3 :0
>>> >  b=. bl_count y
>>> >  v=. start_vals b
>>> >  n=. /:~ ~.y-.0
>>> >  o=. ;({./.~ /:~ (</. i.@#)) y
>>> >  c=. ;n,.&.>(*b)#v+&.>i.&.>b
>>> >  (,. i.@#)c /: o
>>> > )
>>> >
>>> > The argument to find_codes or def_code is the bit widths for each symbol.
>>> >
>>> > I have not been able to figure out, from rfc 1951, how the bit widths
>>> > are calculated.
>>> >
>>> > Thanks,
>>> >
>>> > --
>>> > Raul
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 4:47 PM, Joe Bogner <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> > > 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?
>>> > >>> >>> >>>> > >
>>> > >>> >>> >>>> > > --
>>> > >>> >>> >>>> > > regards,
>>> > >>> >>> >>>> > > ====================================================
>>> > >>> >>> >>>> > > GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24
>>> > >>> >>> >>>> > > gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3
>>> > >>> >>> >>>> > > gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --armor --export
>>> 4434BAB3
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