Did some further investigation: i included some text files, hex encoding, and other compression as well :) raw file list: https://hastebin.com/vazonowuvo.txt

Did some further investigation: i included some text files, hex encoding, and other compression as well :) raw file list: https://hastebin.com/vazonowuvo.txt https://hastebin.com/vazonowuvo.txt tsv (c/p to spreadsheet: https://hastebin.com/ewohafucem.tsv https://hastebin.com/ewohafucem.tsv --- (interesting) using bzip2, compression is better when the following file are encoded first with base64 or hex: bing.png googlelogo.png peppers_color.jpg Useless takeaways: - prefer base64 over hex when encoding already compressed images before further compression - prefer hex over base64 when encoding plain text / low entropy data before further compression