Struct Factor

Struct Documentation

struct Factor

Represents a factorization factor with start position, length, and reference position.

A factor represents a substring in the original text that was identified during noLZSS factorization. The factor covers text from position ‘start’ with the specified ‘length’, and ‘ref’ indicates the position of the previous occurrence (reference) for compression purposes.

Public Members

uint64_t start

Starting position of the factor in the original text.

uint64_t length

Length of the factor substring.

uint64_t ref

Reference position of the previous occurrence.