On Mon, 11 Feb 2019 22:41:51 -0500, Jason
wrote:

In article , lid says...
1) Compression is slow.

Yes it is, but tweaked lzw compression allows for very fast expansion.
Years ago, IBM added some instructions to the RISC/6000 to perform it.
RISC instructions have less entropy than CISC instructions, so it's a
win.

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