Why it matters
ANS reshapes modern compression. Understanding shapes technique.
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The architecture
State transitions per symbol.
tANS (table) fast lookup.
rANS (range) more compact.
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How it works end to end
Duda 2014.
tANS: precomputed state tables.
rANS: range-based.
Faster than arithmetic; better than Huffman.