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		gpm 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Did you read the quarter-million-line license for ... Are you sure it doesn't? When we treat different versions of say, the MIT license, with different names and copyright years inserted, as different licenses. I have to imagine the file would compress extremely well though... I'm more curious why they don't use compression.

toast0 4 months ago [–]

Not sure why Apple doesn't offer a compressed filesystem :p it makes writes a bit slower when compression fails, but otherwise the savings in I/O time often makes up for the increased processing on read and write.

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