Comment on We could save petabytes of cache storage with Zstandard and PingoraparentComments−TacticalCoder9dYeah, the following sentence in TFA is weird:Transcoding does not mean compressing everything. Images, video, and fonts are usually compressed already.It's because they're already lossily compressed that, precisely, they're the typical targets for transcoding.EDIT: oops, wrote lossless instead of lossy, sorry about that−walrus019dAdditionally modern fonts are normally vector point data, no? So there's plenty of opportunity for shrinking file size by lossless compession. But I don't think that's what they're talking about here?
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Yeah, the following sentence in TFA is weird:
It's because they're already lossily compressed that, precisely, they're the typical targets for transcoding.
EDIT: oops, wrote lossless instead of lossy, sorry about that
Additionally modern fonts are normally vector point data, no? So there's plenty of opportunity for shrinking file size by lossless compession. But I don't think that's what they're talking about here?