Hans Wennborg

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Zip Files: History, Explanation and Implementation

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I have been curious about data compression and the Zip file format in particular for a long time. At some point I decided to address that by learning how it works and writing my own Zip program. The implementation turned into an exciting programming exercise; there is great pleasure to be had from creating a well…

Big-Endian Testing with QEMU

2026115 points128 comments Systems & Performance details

In computing, the terms big endian and little endian refer to the order in which a value's bytes are stored in memory: with the most significant (big) or least significant (little) part first.