This tutorial launches a short series introducing data structures and algorithms. In Part 1, you’ll learn what a data structure is and how data structures are classified.

Memory in modern computers manages and transfers data in fixed-size chunks, on which traditional compression techniques must operate. Software, however, doesn’t naturally store its data in fixed-size ...

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Instead, it uses "objects," data structures that contain various types of data and have variable sizes. Therefore, traditional hardware compression techniques handle objects poorly.