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Re:AWS switch from gzip to zstd – about 30% reduction in com... by hexxagone on Saturday August 20, 2022 @04:35PM (#32534978)
It is not. Just look at the frequencies in the data (histogram) and compute the order 0 entropy. Then you know if your data is compressible.
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