Show HN: Blaris – Windowless Random-Access LZSS for Constrained Microcontrollers
Hello HN! I'd like to share the project I've been working on for the last couple of months. On microcontrollers with only a few kilobytes of memory (both Flash and SRAM) heatshrink [1] and tamp [2] are the current meta when it comes to decompression of static assets. They are small, configurable, and produce good compression ratio. However, when random-access workflows are concerned (like extracting a single parameter from a configuration file), both compressors require the exact same window to
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Repository: lis05/blaris. Source account: Hello HN! I'd like to share the project I've been working on for the last couple of months. On microcontrollers with only a few kilobytes of memory (both Flash and SRAM) heatshrink [1] and tamp [2] are the current meta when it comes to decompression of static assets. They are small, configurable, and produce good compression ratio. However, when random-access workflows are concerned (like extracting a single parameter from a configuration file), both compressors require the exact same window to
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