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Re:Catalytic Computing Taps the Full Power of a Full Hard Drive by ycombinatrix on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @09:36PM (#43097927)
Why wouldn't decompressing work? The whole point is that the hard drive is restored to its (arbitrary) original state upon completion.
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Re:Catalytic Computing Taps the Full Power of a Full Hard Drive by Snoozus on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @01:56AM (#43099356)
Some data is just incompressible, like random numbers, encrypted data or already compressed data.
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Re:Catalytic Computing Taps the Full Power of a Full Hard Drive by ycombinatrix on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @01:26PM (#43105502)
The compression from GP's comment is irrelevant.

Put arbitrary data in, get the same arbitrary data out.

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