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doubled112yesterday at 2:11 AM1 replyview on HN

Perhaps a tangent, but until now, I've only seen or used "codec" in the audio/video sense. While somehow awkward, it seems this would also be correct, since it also compresses and decompresses. Video codec but archive format.

Sometimes you see a word used a new way and wonder if you've just been wrong all these years.


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heavyset_goyesterday at 2:56 AM

The defining factor isn't compression/decompression, it's just encoding.

You'll see codec used in things like text encoding.

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