I mean, this is how a lot of compression works already. It's just that there isn't generally a global dictionary, the items to be compressed are scanned for lar

I mean, this is how a lot of compression works already. It's just that there isn't generally a global dictionary, the items to be compressed are scanned for large common sequences and then those are tokenized into a dictionary. https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Data_Compression/Dictionary_compression https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Data_Compression/Dictionary_co...