Programming and compression are related, see Kolmogorov complexity [1]. It's then no surprise that when you do the "compression" yourself, it is almost like you

Programming and compression are related, see Kolmogorov complexity [1]. It's then no surprise that when you do the "compression" yourself, it is almost like your are compressing twice, which often results in inflation because of the compression dictionary. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity