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Old Aug 29th, 2005, 5:27 PM   #2
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Data compression is not an exact science; there's no way to guarentee that a string of 600 characters can be compressed to 400. Javascript compression is also likely to be pretty slow.

That said, have you looked up Huffman Coding? That's a pretty simple compression algorithm.
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