Kompressioon
Kompressioon, also known as data compression, refers to the process of encoding information using fewer bits than the original representation. The goal is to reduce redundancy and improve storage efficiency or transmission speed without significantly altering the original data. Compression techniques are widely used in digital storage, networking, and multimedia applications to optimize performance and resource usage.
There are two primary types of compression: lossless and lossy. Lossless compression preserves all original data,
Compression works by identifying patterns in data and encoding them more efficiently. For example, run-length encoding
In computing, compression is frequently applied to reduce file sizes for storage or transmission. Operating systems
While compression improves efficiency, it also introduces computational overhead. Decompression must be performed to retrieve the