摘要：Multimedia is highly competitive world, one of the properties that is reflected is speed of download and upload of multimedia elements: text, sound, pictures, animation. This paper presents CRUSH algorithm which is a lossless compression algorithm. CRUSH algorithm can be used to compress files. CRUSH method is fast and simple with time complexity O(n) where n is the number of elements being compressed.Furthermore, compressed file is independent from algorithm and unnecessary data structures. As the paper will show comparison with other compression algorithms like Shannon-Fano code, Huffman coding, Run Length Encoding, Arithmetic Coding, Lempel-Ziv-Welch (LZW), Run Length Encoding (RLE), Burrows-Wheeler Transform.Move-to-Front (MTF) Transform, Haar, wavelet tree, Delta Encoding, Rice andGolomb Coding, Tunstall coding, DEFLATE algorithm, Run-Length Golomb-Rice (RLGR).
