How to compile executables:

Use make to run the makefile in this directory. You must have Openmp installed on your computer. You will get the following executables:

• vitter: Benchmark JS Vitter program
• freqParallel: implementation where parallelized creation of frequency table
• strategy: implementation where we parallelized testing different symbol sizes using 1,2 and 4 threads
• zipCompress: testing zip system command to compare with huffman encoding.
• sequential: base for testing if program is executing correctly.

To run the various executables, please give the following inputs:

./vitter c <file_to_encode> <output_file_name> ./zipCompress <file_to_encode> ./freqParallel <file_to_encode> ./strategy <file_to_encode> <num_threads> // please 1, 2 or 4 ./sequential <file_to_encode>