In coding theory, a variable-length code is a code which maps source symbols to a variable number of bits. The equivalent concept in computer science...

computer programming, a variable-length array (VLA), also called variable-sized or runtime-sized, is an array data structure whose length is determined at runtime...

code word in the system. It is trivially true for fixed-length codes, so only a point of consideration for variable-length codes. For example, a code...

Context-adaptive variable-length coding (CAVLC) is a form of entropy coding used in H.264/MPEG-4 AVC video encoding. It is an inherently lossless compression...

Construction of Minimum-Redundancy Codes". The output from Huffman's algorithm can be viewed as a variable-length code table for encoding a source symbol...

string. Variable-length codes are especially useful when clear text characters have different probabilities; see also entropy encoding. A prefix code is a...

Run-length limited (RLL) is a line coding technique that is used to send arbitrary data over a communications channel with bandwidth limits. RLL codes are...

A variable-length quantity (VLQ) is a universal code that uses an arbitrary number of binary octets (eight-bit bytes) to represent an arbitrarily large...

messages came in, codes with variable-length code points were inconvenient for machine design of the period. Instead, codes with a fixed length were used. The...

instructions have variable length, typically integral multiples of a byte or a halfword. Some, such as the ARM with Thumb-extension have mixed variable encoding...

termed a variable word length. In this type of organization, an operand has no fixed length. Depending on the machine and the instruction, the length might...

LEB128 or Little Endian Base 128 is a variable-length code compression used to store arbitrarily large integers in a small number of bytes. LEB128 is used...

Protocol. Elias delta coding Variable-length code Exponential-Golomb coding Gallager, R. G.; van Voorhis, D. C. (1975). "Optimal source codes for geometrically...

Nth code point in a sequence of code points is a constant-time operation. In contrast, a variable-length code requires linear-time to count N code points...

decompress the encoded data. In standard Huffman coding this model takes the form of a tree of variable-length codes, with the most frequent symbols located at...

therefore not binary codes themselves but may be applied to binary codes to reduce storage needs. Morse code is a variable-length telegraphy code, which traditionally...

A variable-width encoding is a type of character encoding scheme in which codes of differing lengths are used to encode a character set (a repertoire of...

common use. UPC-C is a 12-digit code with a product code and a check digit; not in common use. UPC-D is a variable length code (12 digits or more) with the...

a literal constant or as some kind of variable. The latter may allow its elements to be mutated and the length changed, or it may be fixed (after creation)...

processing to decode than the simpler scheme known as context-adaptive variable-length coding (CAVLC) that is used in the standard's Baseline profile. CABAC is...

of bits required to encode the outcome of the random variable using an optimal variable-length code. It can also be regarded as the expected information...

VLC may refer to: Variable-length code, a code which maps source symbols to a variable number of bits The Very Light Car, prototype vehicle Visible light...

variable-length integers, which allows the numbers to be concatenated with nothing separating them. This is how "kva" is used to represent the code number...

source code can be bound to a value during run time, and the value of the variable may thus change during the course of program execution. Variables in programming...

different from other variables and identifiers used in programming codes. Nevertheless, note that case sensitivity in environment variable names differs between...

Huffman coding is used in fax machines to encode black-on-white images (bitmaps). It combines the variable-length codes of Huffman coding with the coding of...

Theoretically, analysis of LDPC codes focuses on sequences of codes of fixed code rate and increasing block length. These sequences are typically tailored...

all 1,112,064 valid code points of Unicode. The encoding is variable-length as code points are encoded with one or two 16-bit code units. UTF-16 arose...

be proportionally larger. Most coding schemes such as Huffman coding or run-length encoding produce variable-length codes, making perfect CBR difficult...

identically-distributed random variable, and the operational meaning of the Shannon entropy. Named after Claude Shannon, the source coding theorem shows that, in...