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Compression

Compression

Two's Complement · Ben Rady and Matt Godbolt

October 23, 202346m 13s

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Show Notes

Matt and Ben talk about how compression works, specifically deflate, which is apparently everywhere. Ben gets particular about compression ratios. Matt explains how to compress /dev/random by sorting it first.