I should clarify: There's still room for improvement in the speed of lossless compression/decompression operations, and that's where most improvements happen no

I should clarify: There's still room for improvement in the speed of lossless compression/decompression operations, and that's where most improvements happen nowadays. But there's little room for improvement in compression ratio, because most modern algorithms produce outputs that are very close to random already. More background: https://marknelson.us/posts/2006/06/20/million-digit-challenge.html https://marknelson.us/posts/2006/06/20/million-digit-challen...