• kibiz0r@midwest.socialEnglish
      30·
      19 hours ago

      Speed is one thing. At least these are free of compression artifacts, and in many cases the data is redundant and signed, which are nice features. The prefetch and local caching also have some excellent characteristics.

      • Ignotum@lemmy.world
        14·
        12 hours ago

        English has an information density of like 1.2 bits per word if i recall correctly
        Those books aren’t just uncompressed, they’re bloated and could be compressed a ton completely losslessly

        A short book written using arithmetic encoding might take a few extra months to read, but think of all the paper you’d be saving!

        • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          1·
          2 hours ago

          they’re bloated and could be compressed a ton completely losslessly

          Spoken like someone who has no concept of art or prose.

          Try compressing a Nabokov novel “losslessly”.