Announcing ext_huffman

Hi Devs, I'd like to announce the Huffman extension. Huffman compression belongs into a family of algorithms with a variable codeword length. That means that individual symbols (characters in a text file for instance) are replaced by bit sequences that have a distinct length. So symbols that occur a lot in a file are given a short sequence while other that are used seldom get a longer bit sequence. Huffman compression works best with text files. The algorithm is about 50 years old and is used in a variety of formats such as GIF, JPEG and PKZIP. Please take a look here: http://pecl.docuverse.de/ The package can be found here: http://www.docuverse.de/proposals/huffman-0.1.0.tgz There is also a Web view of the CVS available: http://www.docuverse.de/cgi-bin/cvsview/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/ext_huffman/ Please, let me know what you think. Best regards, Markus