A data compression engineer implements Huffman coding for a text file, but the decoding process halts prematurely. Which consequence follows from incomplete transmission of the Huffman tree?

💡 Explanation

Incomplete Huffman tree transmission causes the decoder to interpret bit sequences incorrectly because the prefix-free property of the code is lost, therefore, decoding produces incorrect content, rather than affecting compression efficiency or speed directly if the entire tree was available.

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