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Yeah sometimes compression ratio is not the right question when there are other practical concerns like disk space or user experience.

But I do want to point out that almost everyone installs at least one multigigabyte file to decompress other files, and that is the OS.




If the only thing the OS could do is decompress files, then we'd be rightly upset at that for being multi-gigabyte as well. :)




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