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Spotted the packing technique in the Wine's code and killed few days to see how much further it can be taken. Pretty much one of those rabbit holes that you'd occasionally run into in a course of regular programming and end up exploring instead of, you know, working. A good diversion, I suspect quite a few people can relate :)

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I thought it was a cool technique. I used lookup tables for image decompression, I’m curious if this technique would apply there. In the start of the article, you exclude conversions that don’t round-trip. But I would guess this technique will work there even better, because for almost all characters the offsets are identical, with a few exceptions that get their own table blocks.

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