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I don't think this is true. If I coincidentally want to store the first million of digits of Pi then my offset is 0 which is certainly smaller than the data. So

• BugsJustFindMe 3y ago
  Not here, because this mechanism stores offsets to individual bytes not large blobs. Storing the first N bytes of Pi (it makes more sense to talk about bytes than digits) requires N offsets plus either a header indicating how big each offset needed to be or variable-length delimited offsets, which necessarily likewise increases the offset size. In the absolute smallest case that's N+1 bytes.