kevinjoseph1995

// Variable RLE implementation
// Reference: Data Compression (Summer 2023) - Lecture 5 - Basic Techniques | https://youtu.be/TdFWb8mL5Gk?si=ENq0CFiiz-uC7Mib

use anyhow::Result;
use bitvec::prelude::*;

fn min_number_of_bits_required_to_represent(value: usize) -> usize {
    if value == 0 {
        return 0;
    }

kevinjoseph1995

// - This is a simple implementation of the LZW compression algorithm
// - The implementation is based on the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cJL9Va80Pk&t=3962s by  Bill Bird.
// - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compress_(software)


use bitvec::prelude::*;
use std::collections::HashMap;
use std::io::Read;
use std::io::Write;