Run-Length Encoding
In this article we’ll go over how the run-length encoding algorithm works, what it’s used for, and how to implement its encode and decode functions in Python. Run-length encoding (RLE) is a very simple form of data compression in which a stream of data is given as the input (i.e. “AAABBCCCC”) and the output is a sequence of counts of consecutive data values in a row (i.e. “3A2B4C”). This type of data compression is lossless, meaning that when decompressed, all […]
Read more