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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