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ryg_rans
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rygorous / ryg_rans

ryg_rans

Simple rANS encoder/decoder (arithmetic coding-ish entropy coder).

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What it is

Simple rANS encoder/decoder (arithmetic coding-ish entropy coder).

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2016-09-01 04:52:46 UTC to 2026-07-21 16:06:04 UTC.

012016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

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20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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tmd83·Sep 1, 2016
Yeah read about Kraken a while ago and found the encode.ru thread you pointed. Its unfortunate that we can't compare that side by side. Those guys seem another of those compression geniuses. Overall the world of compression is moving very fast and well these days. But even with that Yann might be the first. Yan's work on FSE is old [0] and if I'm reading this correctly his work on FSE is a mix of his own work and Jarek Duda. But it seems one of his failed attempt challenged Jarek to invent another version of ANS called rANS [1] and as you can see in the encode.ru comments from the RAD game tools that they seem to be using rANS at least for Kraken. Regardless these are impressive works and these people are bouncing ideas of each others, being challenged and inspired which is a very good thing for the rest of us :). [0] https://fastcompres
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sion.blogspot.com/2013/12/finite-state-en... [1] http://encode.ru/threads/1821-Asymetric-Numeral-System?p=360... [2] https://github.com/rygorous/ryg_rans
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