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Should it become idempotent after a certain number of iterations? What were the results?
by besnn00 3y ago
Should it become idempotent after a certain number of iterations? What were the results?
- Chaosvex 3y agoHe doesn't have the results, yet. He's running it in an infinite number of times. Without actually checking, the result is going to be that the output size increases slightly over time.
- osigurdson 3y agoI was in quantum space at the time so results are hard to translate. The best approximation to our current reality is a black hole.
- tynorf 3y agoI'm pretty sure part of the contract with gzip (and compression in general) is that applying it N times is undone by decompressing N times. The size definitely gets bigger with each iteration: $ echo text >0.txt $ for i in {0..9}; do gzip <$i.txt >$((i + 1)).txt done $ ls | sort -n | xargs -n1 wc -c 5 0.txt 25 1.txt 46 2.txt 69 3.txt 82 4.txt 105 5.txt 120 6.txt 143 7.txt 161 8.txt 184 9.txt 207 10.txt