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by tyingq 937 days ago
Maybe a spoiler, but the "I" in "I am the reference" is Mark Adler:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Adler

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It's awesome how he is active on stack overflow for almost anything DEFLATE related. I once tried stuffing deflate compressed vector graphics into PDFs. Among other things, it turns out an Adler-32 checksum is necessary for compliance (some newer PDF viewers will ignore its absence though).