Merge Deflate blocks

[NeRdTheNed]

Deflate blocks of the same type can be sometimes merged, which can save space.

• Merge type 0 blocks post optimisation
• Merge type 1 blocks post optimisation
• Merge type 2 blocks with identical headers post optimisation (partially implemented, blocks are merged but the headers are recoded)

Further optimisations could come from merging blocks at different points during optimisation, converting block types and merging, and tracking combinations of blocks and merged blocks to find the smallest combinations.

[ace-dent]

Hi. I wondered if you're still developing this tool?
Huffmix chokes on 0- type blocks...

[NeRdTheNed]

Hi. I wondered if you're still developing this tool? Huffmix chokes on 0- type blocks...

Hi @ace-dent, sorry for the lack of progress! I've been a bit busy recently, I still plan on working on this more in the future but it might take a while. Huffmix having that issue was one of the main reasons I was interested in developing my own tools, I hope to add a "Huffmix equivalent" mode at some point. I'll also probably re-write this in C.

[ace-dent]

Thanks for the update @NeRdTheNed ... It will be such a useful tool to replace Huffmix (and ZipMix). Porting to C for native binaries would be neat too. Cheers!