What a stupid question. If you aren't adapting which compression algorithm you use to what file you are compressing, you may as well not compress at all.
>>27 In place decompression means you don't have to allocate an additional buffer for the compressed data. Instead, you just load the compressed data into the same buffer that the decompressed data will occupy, and run the decompressor. This is possible if the decompression algorithm can guarantee that the decompressed data will never be written over compressed data that has not already been decompressed. Certain LZ variants are designed to do exactly this.
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Anonymous2015-08-06 6:19
.tgz for most situations. If I need tighter compression, I'll use .bz2.
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Anonymous2015-08-06 23:34
I was over at a friends house and i saw him put in the milk in the bowl first before cereal after i seen that i never talked to him again no longer friends few years later i found out he was convicted of murder MORAL of the story go with your instincts
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Anonymous2015-08-07 2:28
are there any compression formats which beat everything on compression size (by being slow as fuck to do)?
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Anonymous2015-08-07 2:51
>>31 FrozenVoid's algorithm can compress anything down to 1 bit in O(n), but decompression is O(2↑↑↑n).
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Anonymous2015-08-07 3:16
>>32 can't it use fractions of a bit? that way we could store multilp files in a single bit
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Anonymous2015-08-07 4:32
.rar
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Anonymous2015-08-07 4:43
>>33 Of course it can, you dolt. Just make a tarball of all the files and it will compress down to a single bit. Each individual record takes only part of that bit. A bit is just a unit of measure we choose for convenience. This is basic infinite compression theory stuff. You need to think like a mathematician. Why was Goedel's proof so devastating to Hilbert? Because he devised a way to allow self reference in a system that was expressly designed to forbid it. Thus is also the case for infinite compression.
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Anonymous2015-08-07 8:00
What is the critical mass of information before an information theoretic blackhole forms?