"a “Carmack” compression, which is John Carmack’s variant of the LZ (Lempel-Ziv) method. According to the Black Book, without much access to the literature, Car

"a “Carmack” compression, which is John Carmack’s variant of the LZ (Lempel-Ziv) method. According to the Black Book, without much access to the literature, Carmack would “invent” an algorithm to later find out that someone else had done it before.". Wow, he really is amazing.