You are viewing a single comment's thread from:RE: Data compression - algorithms that help you to save disk spaceView the full contextervin-lemark (71)in #popularscience • 9 years ago Thanks for the explanation. What about this ultimate algorithm?
I don't believe in such algorithms as they are impossible from the mathematical point of view. You can get good compression performance only if your file has a strict structure
You can get excellent compression performance if you don't care about decompression ;)