diff --git a/src/indexing/codecs/residual.jl b/src/indexing/codecs/residual.jl
index ed547e9..9e0e7fa 100644
--- a/src/indexing/codecs/residual.jl
+++ b/src/indexing/codecs/residual.jl
@@ -46,16 +46,20 @@ function binarize(codec::ResidualCodec, residuals::Matrix{Float64})
     residuals_packed = reshape(residuals_packed, (Int(dim / 8) * nbits, num_embeddings)) # reshape back to get compressions for each embedding
 end
 
-# function compress(codec::ResidualCodec, embs::Matrix{Float64})
-#     codes, residuals = Vector{Int}(), Vector{Matrix{Float64}}() 
-#
-#     offset = 1
-#     bsize = 1 << 18
-#     while (offset <= size(embs[2]))                # batch on second dimension
-#         batch = embs[:, offset:min(size(embs[2]), offset + bsize - 1)]
-#         codes_ = compress_into_codes(codec, batch) # get centroid codes
-#         centroids_ = codec.centroids[:, codes_]    # get corresponding centroids
-#         residuals_ = batch - centroids_ 
-#         append(codes, codes_) 
-#     end
-# end
+function compress(codec::ResidualCodec, embs::Matrix{Float64})
+    codes, residuals = Vector{Int}(), Vector{Matrix{UInt8}}() 
+
+    offset = 1
+    bsize = 1 << 18
+    while (offset <= size(embs[2]))                # batch on second dimension
+        batch = embs[:, offset:min(size(embs)[2], offset + bsize - 1)]
+        codes_ = compress_into_codes(codec, batch) # get centroid codes
+        centroids_ = codec.centroids[:, codes_]    # get corresponding centroids
+        residuals_ = batch - centroids_ 
+        append!(codes, codes_) 
+        push!(residuals, binarize(codec, residuals_))
+    end
+    residuals = cat(residuals..., dims = 2)
+
+    codes, residuals
+end