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Base64 is great and widely used. I just wanted to experiment with a numeric-only representation. NUMBASE encodes everything into a single large number, which can make certain compression schemes like Huffman more efficient and opens up new ways to store or transmit data.

It depends on the data. Base64 adds ~33% overhead, while NUMBASE can be encoded into one large number at once and compressed with Huffman or other algorithms. For some data types this results in fewer extra characters.

URL I added it to the description.

Or here it is: https://github.com/Ferki-git-creator/numbase

Ops, I forgot to add the link.

https://github.com/Ferki-git-creator/numbase

Thanks for the inspiration! I realize it’s probably crazy to think my algorithm could ever become universally needed, but I’m not giving up. Even if it doesn’t turn into something as large-scale as I once dreamed, I believe it can still lead to something useful — and the journey itself is worth it.

Thanks, you’re absolutely right — performance needs to be tested on large inputs with proper speed and memory profiling. I’ll run FSP on bigger datasets and compare it directly with zstd, brotli, gzip, etc. If needed, I’ll improve the algorithm to reduce overhead and make it scale better. This was just an early proof-of-concept, but I agree the next step is serious benchmarking.

Good afternoon, I redesigned the compression algorithm, now it is much better.

Hello, I did what you asked for, here is the test: https://github.com/Ferki-git-creator/fsp/blob/main/test_fsp_...

Here is the output: https://github.com/Ferki-git-creator/fsp/blob/main/output_te...

Don't worry, I'm already starting work on improving it, your comment motivated me, so maybe in 1 day I'll make what you wanted possible.

Hi! Thanks for the feedback. To be honest, the current version of std_net won’t run directly on ESP32 or bare-metal — it relies on standard BSD sockets and a full OS environment.

That said, it can serve as a basis:

On ESP32, you could adapt it to use LWIP sockets via ESP-IDF or Arduino, implement non-blocking I/O with FreeRTOS tasks, and reduce buffer sizes.

On bare-metal, it would require a lightweight TCP/IP stack (like lwIP or uIP) and rewriting functions to be fully event-driven and minimal on dynamic memory.

Also, please keep in mind this was the first version — mainly to see if the library idea resonates. I didn’t plan to make it fully optimized or MCU-ready yet. Future versions will definitely include improvements for embedded environments.

I wish you success in further development, don't stop!

I'm afraid that Rust will replace C/C++ in everything.

Not yet, but there is a test on GitHub.

I am from Ukraine.

I see that there are a lot of posts about frontend, AI, and other programming languages, especially Rust, so I wanted to know if there are still active C programmers here and what they might be doing right now?

Please give feedback.Or if you want please star the repository. :)

I can't use my old account so I created a new one and I'll follow the rules better now.

GitHub: https://github.com/Ferki-git-creator/fsp

Well, the 0.02% number was just proof that my concept works.

I'm starting work and unfortunately I can't share the material yet because I'm in a mess with the files, but I'm already doing tests on different binaries and the results are getting better, I'll provide a more detailed description soon, and links to materials.

Share your thoughts.

Wow interesting story.

For example, I was driven by a desire to make games as a child, but the most interesting thing is that over time, that desire grew into creating my own watch, and so I started learning C and writing code for the system, the board, and other things. I didn't buy any spare parts, so all that's left is the source code. ¯ \ _ ( ツ ) _ / ¯

You can use the following command:

for i in {1..5}; do echo $i; done

Utilities: ls, cp, grep etc. That is, are they all ideally suited for their purpose or do they have any drawbacks, and are there enough of them Bash Should there be more of them?

So, is the standard set of Bash syntax completely enough for you?

Thank you very much, after graduating from university I definitely started a company, but it would always be nice to get the money earlier.

Share your impressions

Hahaha, it would be interesting, maybe he just commented on the post here?