This speeds things up for long message, while not damaging
the stats too much for usual-sized cases
Change-Id: I3f45e28b771d701e2e1da11eb800de18c4ed12fc
Add code for Alpha encoding & decoding. The alpha compression is done
via backward reference counts encoded with Arithmetic encoder (TCoder).
Also provided is lossy Alpha pre-processing option via level-quantizations
using kNN heuristic.
Change-Id: Ib6b13530c1a4ab6493edcb586ad29fe242bc1766