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I think we're talking past each other. I was talking about estimating how much space uncompressed data would take up, of you compressed it. Not the inverse.
by benj111 4y ago
I think we're talking past each other. I was talking about estimating how much space uncompressed data would take up, of you compressed it. Not the inverse.
- lifthrasiir 4y agoThat's compression ratio estimation, not compression level (or parameter) estimation. I thought you were talking about the latter, as the former is virtually impossible (some archivers do sampling as you suggested, but it's only an opportunistic heuristic).