Octane v1.01.20
The Open Compression Toolkit for C++
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About Octane

The Open Compression Toolkit is a set of modular C++ classes and utilities for implementing and testing compression algorithms.

  • Simple interface and skeleton code for creating new compression algorithms.
  • Complete testing framework for validating and comparing new algorithms.
  • Support for algorithms that use external dictionaries/headers.
  • Utility classes and sample code for bitio, frequency counting, etc.

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Downloads

The current Octane distribution and documentation:

Octane v1.01.20 (full package) download (1.5mb)
Octane v1.01.20 (source only) download (200k)
Documentation in HTML format download (600k)
Documentation in HTML Help format download (600k)
Documentation in PDF format download (1.6mb)
 
May 19 2004 - v1.01.20

Minor Update

Fixed bug causing SubStrHuff to crash during compression in some cases.

Improved reporting of compression/decompression speeds.

For a detailed list of changes, see the release history page.

 
August 28 2003 - v1.01.19

Minor Update

Fixed bug in huffman coder leading to long bitcodes for unseen ascii characters

 
August 28 2003 - v1.01.18

Minor Update

Fixed error when compiling under linux; fixed some spelling errors.

 
August 14 2003 - v1.01.17

Minor Update

Added 2 new compressors/preprocessors by loco (zero-length encoder, move-to-front)

 
August 12 2003 - v1.01.16

Minor Update

Small spelling mistakes corrected; added a new sample compressor to show how to make non-statistical compressors.

 
August 11 2003 - v1.01.15

First Release

The first release of Octane is now availabe. Documentation is also available for on-line browsing and download.

 
Links

You can visit us on the efnet irc network in channel #octane, or check out these other useful sites:

 
About

Octane is Open Source; we will use the zlib license unless we decide on a custom license.

 

Octane: The Open Compression Toolkit for C++