Improved Variable-to-Fixed Length Codes

  • Authors:
  • Shmuel T. Klein;Dana Shapira

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Computer Science, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel 52900;Dept. of Computer Science, Ashkelon Academic College, Ashkelon, Israel 78211

  • Venue:
  • SPIRE '08 Proceedings of the 15th International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Though many compression methods are based on the use of variable length codes, there has recently been a trend to search for alternatives in which the lengths of the codewords are more restricted, which can be useful for fast decoding and compressed searches. This paper explores the construction of variable-to-fixed length codes, which have been suggested long ago by Tunstall. Using a new heuristic based on suffix trees, the performance of Tunstall codes could be improved by more than 30%.