Somehow I've only known about compression algorithms in the vaguest possible sense until this week.
( zlib and friends )
Theoretically I'd like to get said library working today but I have to go for groceries and have no data on how foggy I may be when I get home; really wish I had the affordance to take a caffeine tolerance break. All that needs to be done is to 'apply' it to a byte buffer I'm already reading, however my still-extant questions make me sort of freeze up when I look at the problem (it's a couple of nested loops deep) as without this information I'm prone to further unnecessary complication. I don't really do well with unanswered questions or unclear behavior.
( zlib and friends )
Theoretically I'd like to get said library working today but I have to go for groceries and have no data on how foggy I may be when I get home; really wish I had the affordance to take a caffeine tolerance break. All that needs to be done is to 'apply' it to a byte buffer I'm already reading, however my still-extant questions make me sort of freeze up when I look at the problem (it's a couple of nested loops deep) as without this information I'm prone to further unnecessary complication. I don't really do well with unanswered questions or unclear behavior.