in reply to Re^3: How to efficently pack a string of 63 characters
in thread How to efficently pack a string of 63 characters

> I also tried IO::Compress::Bzip2 which was always slightly better

oh Burrows–Wheeler transform is fun, this could indeed lead to squeezing out more redundancy ... even in pre-processing the lines.

Anyway without real data it's a rather theoretical discussion.

Cheers Rolf
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