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Yes they do!
by nzmsv 5y ago
Yes they do!
- sedatk 5y agoWow, I wonder what led to that design decision. Does that mean you have to take that into account when concatenating them?
- nzmsv 5y agoWell, the whole article is about the flaws in the format :) But the answer in this case is Huffman coding. The most common sequences compress to just a few bits, but backreferences and such are not byte-aligned, they just follow literals in the bitstream. Aligning things to bytes would significantly reduce the compression ratio.