How do you fit a dictionary in 64kb RAM? Unix engineers solved it with clever data structures and compression tricks. Here's the fascinating story behind it.
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in the example for value = 8 shouldn't the length be 5?
thank you for this, it was really interesting and well written. Especially for me , because i could read it one go.
yes, it will be of 5 bits i.e 10110 which is 22 by calculation as per the algorithm.