A system and method of accelerating dynamic Huffman decompaction within the inflate algorithm. To improve the performance of a decompression engine during the inflate/decompression process, Huffman trees decompacted a priori are used thus eliminating the requirement of decompacting the DHT for each input stream. The Huffman tree in the input stream is matched prior to decompaction. If a match is found, the stored decompacted Huffman tree is used which reduces the required decompression time.