Re: [colorforth] shifted huffman trees

[Mark Slicker <maslicke@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, Bill Parker wrote:

>
> My illustration has the tags growing to left simply
> because the tag field is currently in the LSBs of the
> 32 bit number.  That seems convenient to implement so
> I saw no reason to change.  You could certainly switch
> the tag field to the MSBs and append those two bits on
> the right instead if that works out better.
>

For the bit-stream you would need a prefix-code because the tags are
variable length. For a known word-length, you are right, that should work.

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