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Well, yes. Except the source text is tiny, so unfortunately all the software is pretty big in comparison.

I love the Hutter Prize, and the various compression benchmark sites.



It's just pretty unconstrained without that kind of rule. And a decompressor that doesn't have to be fast can be tiny.




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