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by amelius 535 days ago
This is very similar to how many compression schemes work. Look up Huffman coding to begin with.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huffman_coding
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nzach 535 days ago
For anyone interested in this topic, Primeagen has a pretty great video on how he used several encoding schemes to save bandwidth in one of his projects.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f9tbqSIm-E

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