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@Liikt Liikt commented Oct 1, 2018

compiled with go version go1.11 linux/amd64 and without errors

@leios leios added the Hacktoberfest The label for all Hacktoberfest related things! label Oct 1, 2018
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for len(nodeList) > 1 {
sort.Slice(nodeList, func(i, j int) bool {
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This basically destroys the algorithmic complexity of Huffman-encoding. We could either use container/heap or roll our own version of it (a heap is pretty easy to implement and it could avoid having to cast back from interface).

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// 0x30 == "0" and 0x31 == "1"
code = append(code, 0x30)
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Why not just use '0' and '1'?

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i forgot that '1' is a rune/byte

@zsparal zsparal merged commit 20576b6 into algorithm-archivists:master Oct 10, 2018
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