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		neilc on Feb 18, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How To Think About Compression There's a lot of prior work that is related to this idea. For example: http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=6469... An interesting point about their approach is that it is independent of file size: they just need to keep 96 bits of metadata per file.

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