abdallahhemdan / enwik8-compression

📦 Compressing of the challenge enwik8 (100MB of wikipedia) using LZW(Lempel–Ziv–Welch) compression algorithm using cpp...

enwik8 compression

About

Compressing the challenge enwik8 which is the first 100MB of Wikipedia using LZW(Lempel–Ziv–Welch) using c++.

Statistics

• Input file size : 95.3 MB
• Output file size : 34 MB
• Compression ratio : ~2.8
• Encoding time : ~30 sec
• Decoding time : ~10 sec

How to use

1. Clone the repository

$ git clone https://github.com/AbdallahHemdan/enwik8-compression.git

2. Open the solution and run the following commands as arguments

   1. Encoding and decoding

   $ encode|decode file_path

   $ encode|decode ./enwik8.txt

   2. Encoding only

   $ encode file_path

   $ encode ./enwik8.txt

   3. Decoding only

   $ decode

License

This software is licensed under MIT License, See License for more information ©AbdallahHemdan.