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Re:Shakespeare.txt.jpg: A JPEG compression experiment by csense on Tuesday June 18, 2013 @01:47AM (#5897775)
General-purpose compressors for comparison:

   gzip      : 66513
   gzip  -c9 : 66099
   bzip2 -c9 : 53619
   xz    -c9 : 59572
Interestingly, bzip2 is the best. Often xz is better, but apparently not for this data.
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