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by vanderZwan 1389 days ago
Well, the entropy coding step is. Which is just one of multiple parts of the data compression. But entropy coding typically is the bottleneck in encoding/decoding speed, yes, and Duda's work is impressive (also because he took on Google when the latter didn't appear to keep their no-software-patents promise that they. made when they first started collaborating. The man stands up for his principles)