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by 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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And in fact, RegPack is lossy compression (as are all minifiers). The transformation is totally irreversible.