Paul Moore wrote:
But that's not "compression", that's simply using a better encoding. In the technical sense, "compression" is about looking at redundancies that go beyond the case of how effectively you pack data into the bytes available.
There may be a difference in the way the terms are used, but I don't think there's any fundamental difference. Compression is about finding clever ways to make the encoding better. Either way, the information-theoretic limits on the number of bits needed are the same. -- Greg -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
