In sorting algorithms there is a classification in online and offline. Offline algorithms need all of the data to work. Online algorithms can work with parts of the data and incorporate more data as it is received. I guess he is looking for an algorithm which can compress data arriving from a stream without buffering the whole stream first.
Or he want to compress data over the internet because he has no local admin rights to install a compression software/library.
maw32 t1_j1ylkbk wrote
Reply to comment by Jason_Peterson in [ELI5] How do online compression algorithms manage to take a file that is dozens of megabytes in size and shrink it down to just a few kilobytes, while mantaining the same quality? by Karamel43
In sorting algorithms there is a classification in online and offline. Offline algorithms need all of the data to work. Online algorithms can work with parts of the data and incorporate more data as it is received. I guess he is looking for an algorithm which can compress data arriving from a stream without buffering the whole stream first.
Or he want to compress data over the internet because he has no local admin rights to install a compression software/library.