Re: Fw: Curiosity

> João Victor Bonfim JoaoVictorBonfim@protonmail.com writes:
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> > > I suspect that for most algorithms and their implementations, this would
> > >
> > > not result in repeatable "recompressed" results. Thus the checked-out
> > >
> > > files might be different every time you checked them out. :(
> >
> > How or why?
> >
> > Sincere question.
>
> Two immediate things that come to my mind are lossy compression
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> algorithms (jpeg pictures?) and compressors that do not necessarily
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> produce bit-for-bit identical results (e.g. gzip by default embeds
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> timestamp unless explicitly told not to from a command line option).