[TML] New 3d computer simulation design

[Brad Murray]

On Dec 2, 2007 8:48 PM, Timothy Little <tim at little-possums.net> wrote:

> Not really, since they losslessly compress to identical sizes in cases
> where the extended range is not used.  A restricted character set is a
> form of lossy compression.


Even where the extended range is used, texts usually only need one small
piece of that range (say, all of Arabic) and therefore half the bytes in the
message will be identical (marking the range in use), and compress to
practically zero.

-- 
Brad Murray (halfjack)