MVCOMP, lightweight data compression for low-resource systems

brought to you by Mateusz Viste

MVCOMP is a minimalist data compression format. It is very easy to implement: a depacker can be written within less than 20 lines of C. It's easy, fast and light. MVCOMP is meant to be used as a compression method in constrained environments (think 8086 and 16K of RAM).

MVCOMP's compression ratio is not very strong, but it is not ridiculously weak either: it is typically worse than ZIP -9 by less than 10 percentage points.

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