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Comment by userbinator

9 hours ago

You don't. Any real compression algorithm, including all the other standard ones, doesn't need such a thing.

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Dylan16807  6 hours ago

Many compression formats support static dictionaries, and for a good reason. Short messages don't compress well. If you know a bunch of common data for a context, you can make the first several kilobytes compress a lot better.

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