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		kg on April 21, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Faster LZ is not the answer to 150-250 GB video ga... Heavy compression for the first install is a common tactic. Steam and itch do it, and brotli transfer compression is widely used on the web.

pornel on April 22, 2023 [–]

Lossless transfer compression is good to have, but it's not enough. Lossy compression can give you over 10 times smaller files, but it's format-specific and needs to be carefully applied by the developer.

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