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		josefx on June 5, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: John Carmack on JPEG Zip compressing a single PNG is kinda redundant, since it already uses the same algorithms as part of its own lossless compression.

KMag on June 5, 2021 [–]

Yes. I'm aware that zip, gzip, and PNG all use zlib DEFLATE compression.

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