Description
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run-length_encoding
Performs well with highly repetitive data e.g. [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3]. Performs very bad with data containing repeating patterns e.g. [0, 1, 2, 3, 0, 1, 2, 3, 0, 1, 2, 3].
Class Methods
.encode
Returns an array with length, value pairs.
.decode
Array must be length, value pairs.