Well, I did some experiments with small buffers and I don't think we want to use it for anything smaller than 16 bytes. "xxxx" (4 'x' chars) "compresses" to 6 bytes "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" (16 'x' chars) "compresses" to 18 bytes "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" (17 'x' chars) "compresses" to 8 bytes
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Well, I did some experiments with small buffers and I don't think we want to use it for anything smaller than 16 bytes. "xxxx" (4 'x' chars) "compresses" to 6 bytes "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" (16 'x' chars) "compresses" to 18 bytes "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" (17 'x' chars) compresses to 8 bytes