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Also, a 75% reduction (which I assume was meant by their 300 percent) is not that impressive when it comes to text compression. I'd guess that should be easily
by Slartie 4y ago
Also, a 75% reduction (which I assume was meant by their 300 percent) is not that impressive when it comes to text compression. I'd guess that should be easily reachable with zstd by just creating a pre-shared dictionary generated from a bunch of typical emergency messages. Especially when those messages are partially auto-generated by a wizard-style questionnaire and will thus adhere to a previously-known structure and contain a lot of known elements and words.
- dont__panic 4y agoYou know damn well there's a new "Staff Engineer" at Apple who fluffed this "algorithm" up as an argument for a promotion from Senior Engineer. And likely a few product folks and managers who ballooned this entire project way out of proportion for their own career advancement.
- __turbobrew__ 4y agoStaff engineer at apple discovers gzip
- thatfrenchguy 4y agoFrom my friends who work at Apple, there’s a lot less of that promotion-driven work because most of the engineers there are at ict4.
- Dylan16807 4y agoMy guess is 67% reduction.