Re: Gzip better than Bz2 ? Normal?
- From: Deron Meranda <deron.meranda@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 15:45:43 -0500
> It is a theorem that, for any [lossless] compression
> algorithm which makes the compressed version of some file
> smaller than the uncompressed version, there is a file for
> which the compressed version is *larger* than the uncompressed
> version.
It's also true that the amount of expansion in those cases
never has to be more than one additional bit.
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Deron Meranda
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