Single-Pass Huffman Coding
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Is it faster than the simple one? Does it use less memory? Is it easier to write? Is it easier to understand?
I think all of the above is false, but I have a limited understanding of Haskell. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Limited understanding here too. Sounds like it's not really single pass anyway so it's not usable to process a stream in real-time either, before having all the data?
It is useful for understanding laziness and some interesting theoretical tools for traversing data structures, though. For a more in-depth look at the idea of circular programs for traversal, Bird's paper (linked in the post, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00264249) is a good start.