LZ77 algorithm

An implementation of the LZ77 algorithm in rust.

info

I chose to implement the LZ77 compression algorithm for one of my university classes. The size of the look-ahead and the search buffer is 1 byte. The program reads the entire given file and then divides it into chunks, which it then feeds to the algorithm.

This implementation is not fully optimized, but it is functional.

commands

A program for compressing and decompressing files using the LZ77 algorithm

Usage: lz77_project --input <INPUT> --output <OUTPUT> <COMMAND>

Commands:
  singlethreaded  compresses the input file using a single thread
  multithreaded   compresses the input file using multiple threads
  decompress      decompresses the given input file
  help            Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)

Options:
  -i, --input <INPUT>    path to a file that the program reads data from
  -o, --output <OUTPUT>  path to a file that the program uses for storing output
  -h, --help             Print help
  -V, --version          Print version

this code should not be used in production. It is not optimized.