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When would Huffman coding outperform Deflate?

What features in a data set would lead to Huffman coding outperforming Deflate compression? I am looking at lossless data compression for numerical raster data sets such as terrestrial elevation data. I am seeing a non-trivial number of cases where Huffman coding produces smaller outputs than Deflate compression. I am a bit surprised by this […]