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Comment by evanb

4 hours ago

You could package all your data into a zip using this language but you would also have a worthless stretch of memory seemingly filled with noise / things you’re not interested in.

Why do you think so? The code example shows that you can do RLE (run length encoding) without noise / additional space. I'm pretty sure you can do zip as well. It would just be very hard to implement, but it wouldn't necessarily require that the output contains noise.

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