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		Chabsff on April 11, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The simple beauty of XOR floating point compressio... Not having to make that kind of decision in the first place is inherently valuable in of itself, which I believe is what's being showcased here.

porphyra on April 12, 2024 [–]

I guess, but most compression algorithms like DEFLATE or zstd would compress those big sequences of zeros basically to nothing.

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