|
|
|
|
|
by lmkg
4998 days ago
|
|
It depends on the decompression algorithm. It's possible for that to be the case, but this can only happen if the compressed binary format is essentially a Turing-complete language, for which your decompresser is the interpreter. I'm not aware of any data formats for which that is the case, but from a theoretical standpoint, eval(s) is a perfectly cromulent decompression algorithm. This fact is essentially the starting point for Kolmogorov complexity. "Reasonably-sized" is actually an interesting problem in itself. If your decompresser is sufficiently advanced, you could embed a busy-beaver function, which terminates but grows faster than any computable function. I have no idea whether such functions could be expressed with less-than-Turing-complete data formats. |
|