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Free up drive space without losing content
This should work very well for applications that consist of large numbers of small files, but poorly for continuous tone images or movies. An easy way to judge the potential savings is to just zip an application and see how much smaller it gets.
Free up drive space without losing content
However, if the majority of the space is in non-compressible data (binary code, images, etc.) then the overall savings will be small. This sentence could be interpretted to imply that binary code and images are not compressible, but that is not true at all. PRE-COMPRESSED images formats, like JPEG or GIF, do not compress well. But others compress very nicely. Unfortunately some formats like TIFF may be either compressed or uncompressed depending on the file options used, so it is hard to tell without trying. Binary application files compress quite well on average, which is precisely why even single-file applications are smaller when zipped. |
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