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Old 11-18-2019, 08:58 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by j.p.s View Post
That is not true in all cases.

A compression algorithm specialized for particular input data might produce smaller output while using less CPU than a general compression algorithm.

It is very common for compression algorithms that squeeze out a bit more compression at the cost of a lot of CPU to have decompressors that use little or no additional CPU.
I don't know about KF8, but I do know that when Mobi gets compressed to maximum, it does use more CPU to decompress.
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