[neon5077]

I don't really think that's too relevant to the core concept of using fewer bits for the most common codes.

That's really a problem inherent to binary streams in general, not just Huffman encoding.

[vitus]

It was a minor point re: this claim:

> Values 0-255 take up one byte, 256-65535 take two bytes

If you wanted to encode more than 256 values, then at best you'd be able to specify values 0-254 taking one byte, e.g. if you used 0xff as a special prefix to represent "use another byte for all other values", but that particular encoding means that you'd only be able to encode another 256 values with a second byte.