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Compression: BigByte
alecjw:
I made a 1GB file with BigByte and compressed it. The file size when compressed was about 70KB. I'm guessing that that's because BigByte creates files which are just 11111111111111111111111111111111 etc and when compressed it is stored as 8589934592 1's rather than 11111111111111111111111111etc. Maybe you could make it make files which are 10101010101010etc or maybe even randomly generated to stop such decrese in file size when compressed.
LuckMan212:
why would you compress it?
alecjw:
Good point. I just compressed it and thought that it didn't seem right. But thinking about it, I suppose wouldn't need to compress it...
LuckMan212:
i suppose there might be a valid reason for wanting to compress the files... one example might be to test the effectiveness/compare the different compression formats (ZIP, RAR, ACE, LZH, etc). With all 1's this is not really possible. With a string of random characters it would be a more accurate measurement of real world performance.
mouser:
having the program have an option to generate random bytes would be nice.
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