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It's impressive how close this is to Brotli even though brotli has this massive pre-shared dictionary. Is the actual compression algorithm used by it just worse, or does the dictionary just matter much less than I think?


Pre-shared dictionary is most effective for the small size that can't reach the stationary distribution required for typical compressors. I don't know the exact threshold, but my best guess is around 1--10 KB.




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