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Originally Posted by HarryT
That implies massive redundancy, as I said in my previous post. If you compress a typical piece of "real world" text (eg a book) you'll typically get a factor of 2 or 3 from it in the way of compression.
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Yes, but we're discussing log files and they have a lot of redundancy.
For a book, yes I'd expect something in the range 2-4x compression, depending on the text.