prepend
Speech parts
1. prepend - Noun
2. prepend - Verb
Meaning
prepend (third-person singular simple present prepends, present participle prepending, simple past and past participle prepended)
(computing, linguistics, transitive) To attach (an expression, phrase, etc.) to another, as a prefix.
prepend (plural prepends)
The act of prepending.
prepend (third-person singular simple present prepends, present participle prepending, simple past and past participle prepended)
(rare, transitive) To premeditate; to weigh up mentally.
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A naive approach might be to prepend the frequency count of each character to the compression stream.
Another method is to simply prepend the Huffman tree, bit by bit, to the output stream.