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CamperBob2 on Nov 9, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Base64 encoding and decoding at almost the speed o...

How exactly do you make a base64-aware image compressor, though?

MaxBarraclough on Nov 11, 2019 [–]

I don't follow. An image compressor is guaranteed not to be given Base64 input.

A general-purpose compression scheme can easily detect when its input is Base64, so I don't see why Base64 should be particularly hard to compress, in principle at least.

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