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		ycombinatrix 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Catalytic computing taps the full power of a full ... Why wouldn't decompressing work? The whole point is that the hard drive is restored to its (arbitrary) original state upon completion.

Snoozus 5 months ago [–]

Some data is just incompressible, like random numbers, encrypted data or already compressed data.

ycombinatrix 5 months ago | [–]

The compression from GP's comment is irrelevant.

Put arbitrary data in, get the same arbitrary data out.

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