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Re: Anything lost in higher compression?

Actually, the point about a higher compression ratio requiring more CPU power to decompress is not entirely true. In many cases, higher compression results in significantly LESS processing power for decompression. For example, a run of 10,000 zeros could be compressed into a few bytes (for a 10,000 to 3 ratio) and decompressed in much less time than it would take to decompress a run of compressed random data.


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