Handmade C++: LZW Decompression Tuning, Part 1
Channel: Edwin Steiner
Date: 2020-05-25

Let's make our Lempel-Ziv-Welch (LZW) decoder faster (or at least less slow). In this episode we mostly pluck the low hanging fruit by doing straight-forward optimizations like localizing variables, special-casing some hot paths, improving code generation, etc.
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