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• Building a Lossless File Compressor from Scratch in C: My Journey with Shannon-Fano, Bitstreams, and Low-Level Performance

  06-09-2026 · 9 min read
  A deep dive into building kmprs, a lossless file compressor written from scratch in C using Shannon-Fano entropy coding, custom bit-level I/O, and low-level performance optimizations.