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0 pointssampo11y ago0 comments

Well that is a lossy compression, can work nicely to some data (e.g. images), but totally irrelevant in the context of source code compression.

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vardump11y ago· 1 in thread

Lossy compression might be just fine for source code, as long as the lossy part is still functionally equivalent.

Think 1000.0 vs 1E3, printf("foo") vs puts("foo"), etc.

And in fact, RegPack is lossy compression (as are all minifiers). The transformation is totally irreversible.

tormeh11y ago

Well, he didn't say he only wanted non-lossy compression or that he was working on source code compression.

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