An efficient compression algorithm for short text strings

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Vasily Korolev picture Vasily Korolev · Jul 16, 2009 · Viewed 118.5k times · Source

I'm searching for an algorithm to compress small text strings: 50-1000 bytes (i.e. URLs). Which algorithm works best for this?

Answer

stvchu picture stvchu · Jul 16, 2009

Check out Smaz:

Smaz is a simple compression library suitable for compressing very short strings.

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