Arithmetic coding in Rust

A simple arithmetic coder implementation that should be easy to read. Includes a driver binary and a library. By default a binary is built.

Build

Run cargo build --release.

Run encoding routine

Run target/release/arithmetic-coding -e <input from stdin>. For example on Linux, just pipe your file using cat, and then direct the output to file: cat war_and_peace.txt | target/release/arithmetic-coding -e > output.bin

Run decoding routine

Run target/release/arithmetic-coding -d <input from stdin>.