lzma compression on official isos vs Deltaisos

[Bill Davidsen]

Tim wrote:
> Tim:
>>> Generally speaking, trying to compress something that's already
>>> compressed doesn't gain you anything.  Often, things will get bigger
>>> (e.g. new archive headers will be added to the file), and you're just
>>> creating more decompressing work to be done.
> 
> Mike McCarty:
>> Yes, that's correct. However, when a file has very little
>> actual redundancy, sometimes recompression can have a dramatic
>> effect. 
> 
> It shouldn't if the compression routine was well written, in the first
> place.
> 
Let me say this politely, go learn something about compression and entropy. 
You're completely confused about how compression works.

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