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There's no way to know what's going to be a common algorithm in the future unless you have a time machine. When DEFLATE was first invented, it wasn't common ei
by Grishnakh 10y ago
There's no way to know what's going to be a common algorithm in the future unless you have a time machine. When DEFLATE was first invented, it wasn't common either, it was brand-new. Now it's everywhere. This new algorithm might become just as ubiquitous in 10 years, or it might turn into the next bzip2, or worse, the next ZOO.
- twic 10y agoYou're right, of course. So we should base it on how common the algorithm was in the compressions we've done so far. (I am not sure if i need to clarify that my original comment was meant to be a joke about Huffman coding)