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FEAD Compressing Compressed Files by 50-75%?

Posted by Cliff on from the if-it-seems-that-way-it-probably-is dept.

An anonymous reader asks: "I just installed Acrobat Reader and found that it was using FEAD which claims - 'FEAD© Optimizer© significantly reduces the size of application programs on average by 50% (in some cases up to 75%, depending on the specific software), even when they are already compressed with common compression technology like ZIP or CAB.' . It seems that they optimize each application individually at thieir labs. But an average of 50% compression on already compressed binary files seems to be too good to be true. Anyone familiar with how someone may be able to achieve this?"

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  1. Re:Compression is easy by Alroussassa · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Ahh! Try not to be annoyed by my newbieness (I just started programming recently).

    Ok, fine, so now you end up with 1 from 1101101001001. But how do you go backwards?

    I receive 1.

    How do I decompress 1 to 1101101001001?
    There isn't enough information?




    -Alroussassa