Compression is all about getting more out of less. We're zipping through different algorithms while packing some bits. Let's find out why there's so many occurrences of the letter Z in compression and also see why compressing some data may end up larger than before.
After this talk you'll be confident how to make files smaller and when to not bother trying because you already know why it won't work.
This talk is part of my foundational technologies arc, which includes these topics:
(In alphabetical order.)
- Backups
- Colour
- Email Systems
- Emoji
- Encoding
- Fonts and Typography
- HTTP/2
- USB (2 talks)
- various shell tools, including
sshandtmux