c-basic/huffman

Huffman

The ./testfiles folder is ignored through gitignore, as it might contain large files. Use the following command in the root directory of this repository populate it or create your own testfiles.

make

If you want to do testing using larger files aswell, you can generate these using:

make big

Files with random bytes won't be able to be compressed by much, that is normal. Instead, try something like a text file (or any other file with lower entropy), the LICENSE in the root of this repository for example.