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Compression achieved on the first billion bytes of English Wikipedia is only 0.88 bits per byte (bpb). Even when the decompressing program is large at almost 20
by tromp 5y ago
Compression achieved on the first billion bytes of English Wikipedia is only 0.88 bits per byte (bpb). Even when the decompressing program is large at almost 200KB, that is... wow!
- londons_explore 5y agoNote that it is an XML formatted version of Wikipedia, so some of that data is very predictable XML tags.
- IcePic 5y agoTrue, but that would hold true for all common compressors, so beating them is still a huge win.