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I assume he meant code size as in how much a developer would need to read to understand. Basically using code size as a proxy for code complexity (which is no

• hiddencost 5y ago
  Combining the binary size with the compressed data size is fairly typical when measuring compression schemes. Otherwise you end up in situations where people game benchmarks. E.g., from [0]: Compressors are ranked by the compressed size of enwik9 (109 bytes) plus the size of a zip archive containing the decompresser. [0] http://www.mattmahoney.net/dc/text.html http://www.mattmahoney.net/dc/text.html