Function RLEncodebytes

compression/rlecoding.go:50–64

RLEncodebytes takes a byte slice and returns its run-length encoding as a byte slice

(data []byte)

// RLEncodebytes takes a byte slice and returns its run-length encoding as a byte slice
func RLEncodebytes(data []byte) []byte {
	var result []byte
	var count byte = 1

	for i := 0; i < len(data); i++ {
		if i+1 < len(data) && data[i] == data[i+1] {
			count++
			continue
		}
		result = append(result, count, data[i])
		count = 1
	}

	return result
}

// RLEdecodebytes takes a run-length encoded byte slice and returns the original byte slice
func RLEdecodebytes(data []byte) []byte {