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rafram06/03/20251 replyview on HN

I wanted to try out your app, but I cancelled the download after noticing that it's 3.5 gigabytes. How?! That's by far the biggest iOS app I've ever seen.


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michaeld12306/03/2025

Sorry! The problem is ~2kb of data per 1.5M headwords. We already use indicies and brotli compression internally. I doubt we could smush below 3GB.

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