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Distributing a 538 MB file (which can be compressed further) is much easier.
by captn3m0 9y ago
Distributing a 538 MB file (which can be compressed further) is much easier.
- wongarsu 9y agoWhat are the actual use cases where this size difference matters? I distributing to a general audience, 0.5GB and 10GB isn't that much of a difference, and most people are more equipped for handling lists of strings than for handling bloom filters.
- bradleyjg 9y ago>which can be compressed further Can it? I think of a bloom filter as similar to a lossy compression scheme and wouldn't expect it to be further compressible to any significant extent using a general purpose lossless scheme. Similar to how general purpose compressors generally don't do very well with mp3s or jpgs.