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From the Z spec (https://www.inform-fiction.org/zmachine/standards/z1point1/sect03.html https://www.inform-fiction.org/zmachine/standards/z1point1/s...): "In p
by FullyFunctional 3y ago
From the Z spec (https://www.inform-fiction.org/zmachine/standards/z1point1/sect03.html https://www.inform-fiction.org/zmachine/standards/z1point1/s...):
"In practice the text compression factor is not really very good: for instance, 155000 characters of text squashes into 99000 bytes. (Text usually accounts for about 75% of a story file.) Encoding does at least encrypt the text so that casual browsers can't read it. Well-chosen abbreviations will reduce total story file size by 10% or so."
I'm curious about other schemes like this with higher density. Obviously, it's a trade-off between text density and more code in the VM.