enwik8 compression

About

Compressing the challenge enwik8 which is the first 100MB of Wikipedia using LZW(Lempel–Ziv–Welch) using c++.

Statistics

• Input file size : 95.3 MB
• Output file size : 34 MB
• Compression ratio : ~2.8
• Encoding time : ~30 sec
• Decoding time : ~10 sec

How to use

1. Clone the repository

$ git clone https://github.com/AbdallahHemdan/enwik8-compression.git

2. Open the solution and run the following commands as arguments

   1. Encoding and decoding

   $ encode|decode file_path

   $ encode|decode ./enwik8.txt

   2. Encoding only

   $ encode file_path

   $ encode ./enwik8.txt

   3. Decoding only

   $ decode

License

This software is licensed under MIT License, See License for more information ©AbdallahHemdan.