@confuzzle/move-to-front

This package contains a naive, inefficient implementation of the Move-to-front transform.

For details of how this can be used together with the Burrows-Wheeler transform to improve compression, see this excellent blog post by Tommy Reddad.

See also

• @confuzzle/burrows-wheeler - naive Burrows-Wheeler transform implementation
• @thi.ng/range-coder - useful for compressing the transformed result

Functionality

This package provides two functions:

• forward(s), which runs Buffer.from(s) and performs the forward transform on the result
• inverse(x), which runs Buffer.from(x) performs the inverse transform on the result Both functions return a Buffer object.

Example Usage

const mtf = require('@confuzzle/move-to-front');
const s = 'abracadabra';
const t = mtf.forward(s);
const inv = mtf.inverse(t).toString();
console.log(inv) // abracadabra