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Re:The Elegance of Deflate by HisGraceTheDuck on Monday August 22, 2016 @02:56AM (#12334552)
"it could be argued to be less efficient for certain types of data" This is true of all lossless compression.
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Re:The Elegance of Deflate by banachtarski on Monday August 22, 2016 @03:11AM (#12334606)
You're invoking a stronger "technically correct" interpretation of the statement I'm making. Let me qualify. In a blob with many short repeated sequences, the algorithm as presented is better. In a blob with many long repeated sequences, a marking bit is better. Honestly, neither example is that farfetched.
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