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2007 Oct 31
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Unused entries in code book
Hi, I am trying to understand the building of Huffman codes from the code lengths. In the Tremor code first I see that the codewords are being generated by the function _make_words() and then sorted. After this I see some magic code and something related to unused entries. Does the code generate code words for unused entries too? Are these unused entry code words used during the decode