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by vardump·11y ago·view on hn ↗
Lossy compression might be just fine for source code, as long as the lossy part is still functionally equivalent.

Think 1000.0 vs 1E3, printf("foo") vs puts("foo"), etc.

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And in fact, RegPack is lossy compression (as are all minifiers). The transformation is totally irreversible.