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But we don’t usually count the decompression program size when evaluating compression ratio. Eg 7-Zip is about 1 MB, but you don’t think about that when evaluat
by markisus 2y ago
But we don’t usually count the decompression program size when evaluating compression ratio. Eg 7-Zip is about 1 MB, but you don’t think about that when evaluating particular 7z files.
- Filligree 2y agoWe would if it’s a multi-gigabyte program the receiver doesn’t have installed.
- viraptor 2y agoMaybe not multi-gigabyte, but in a new system/phone in a year, you're basically guaranteed to find at least one tiny model. We may even get some "standard" model everyone can reliably use as a reference.
- Filligree 2y agoAt that point it would be useful. Although, I wonder if it wouldn’t make more sense to train one specifically for the job. Current LLMs can predict HTML, sure, but they’re large and slow for the task.
- markisus 2y agoYeah sometimes compression ratio is not the right question when there are other practical concerns like disk space or user experience. But I do want to point out that almost everyone installs at least one multigigabyte file to decompress other files, and that is the OS.
- Filligree 2y agoIf the only thing the OS could do is decompress files, then we'd be rightly upset at that for being multi-gigabyte as well. :)
- vintermann 2y agoWe do when it's the Hutter prize, otherwise it's easy to cheat. But sure, it's a constant factor, so if you compress enough data you can always ignore it.