Aaaand that was the last bug, zoo now builds and runs also on NetBSD, I had 6.1.5 on a very old server ... and apparently nothing better to do today.
Now some minor cosmetics, changelog updating, and then release v2.11 in a day or so.
Heh, working on zoo again 😲 🥰
Compression pioneer Abraham Lempel passes.
https://www.honoraryunsubscribe.com/abraham-lempel/?fs=e&s=cl
#RIP #technology #compression #LempelZiv #computinghistory #LZ
A nice overview of #lossless #compression #algorithms with a brief #history:
“History Of Lossless Data Compression Algorithms” [2014], ETHW (https://ethw.org/History_of_Lossless_Data_Compression_Algorithms).
Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31922396
#LZ77 #LempelZiv #LosslessCompression #ZIP #DEFLATE #LZMA #HuffmanCoding #RLE