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by sampo 4228 days ago
Well that is a lossy compression, can work nicely to some data (e.g. images), but totally irrelevant in the context of source code compression.
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vardump 4227 days ago
Lossy compression might be just fine for source code, as long as the lossy part is still functionally equivalent.

Think 1000.0 vs 1E3, printf("foo") vs puts("foo"), etc.

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mistercow 4227 days ago
And in fact, RegPack is lossy compression (as are all minifiers). The transformation is totally irreversible.
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tormeh 4228 days ago
Well, he didn't say he only wanted non-lossy compression or that he was working on source code compression.
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