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Posted2 months agoActive2 months ago
Show HN: Micro-RLE ≤264-byte compression for UART/MCU logs, zero RAM growth
github.comembedded systemscompression algorithmsmicrocontrollers
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I am thinking of my trace prints and they are usually text which actually does not compress too well with RLE. English doesn’t have too many repeated letters. LZ (even with a tiny window) would work better.
That is to say: I am doubting the 33-70% compression
2 months ago
The 33-60 % figure is for repetitive firmware logs (periodic status lines, hex dumps, etc.) where the XOR-delta between successive bytes is zero most of the time.
The headline should read “compresses repetitive logs”; sorry for the noise.