[ryan-duve]

This was a great read. I look forward to the Part II teased at the end. In addition to deep diving on the Huffman codes, I hope you find a way to include an explanation of when to read left-to-right vs right-to-left, which is what tripped me up the most in this article.

[thomastay]

Thanks, appreciate it. Honestly, the switch from little endian to big endian within the same compressed blocks is incredibly confusing and is probably one of the things that is so weird about the Deflate specification. I had to read that part of the spec over and over again, and compare it to other people's blog posts (made harder because some people write bits from Right to Left???)

I personally think it's easiest if you write bits Left to right, from LSB to MSB, which fits how humans write words, but i also get that when you're programming, you tend to think of MSB being on the left and LSB on the right (for bit twiddling operations)

So I can see why people would write bits right to left too, to fit how you program, but frankly I don't think that is any easier to read on paper.

[Rendello]

It's funny, just earlier today I decided to pick up my Deflate project again (for the fourth time), and I was reading up on the odd ordering stuff and struggling.

[Koffiepoeder]

I usually write them RTL because it better aligns with shift operations in my head. This makes it easier to think about certain kinds of binary algorithms in my opinion.