Thanks!

I looked into it and could reproduce your results.

FWIW I tried best compression for gzip

use IO::Compress::Gzip qw(gzip :constants); sub compgzip { gzip \(shift) => \(my $output), -Level => Z_BEST_COMPRESSION; $output; } use IO::Uncompress::Gunzip qw(gunzip); sub uncompgzip { gunzip \(shift) => \(my $output); $output; }

and got

------------------------------ Compression by gzip/gunzip length of data 210168 length of compressed data 42210 compressed to 20.1% MATCH

update

I noticed that -Strategy => Z_RLE already led to compressed to 20.9% so my theory is that your runs are so homogeneously distributed that the second phase Huffmann couldn't squeeze more than 0.8% out of it.

Cheers Rolf
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In reply to Re^9: a random_data() implementation by LanX
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