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underdeserveryesterday at 9:18 PM1 replyview on HN

Technically correct, but a better benchmark would be a known compressor with an unknown set of inputs (that come from a real-world population, e.g. coherent English text).


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erutoday at 1:27 AM

Yes, definitely. Alas, it's just harder to run these kinds of challenges completely fairly and self-administered, than the ones where you have a fixed texts as the challenge and add the binary size of the decompressor.